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Blowback: Late 1960s and ’70s Pulp and Popular Fiction about the Vietnam War
When soldiers returned home, a new wave of crime fiction captured the trauma—and the moral abyss.
By
Andrew Nette
| December 3, 2019
Jessica Fletcher and the Long Afterlife of
Murder, She Wrote
Upon publishing the 50th book in the
Murder, She Wrote
series, Jon Land reflects on the eternal appeal of Cabot Cove.
By
Jon Land
| December 3, 2019
The Sixth Victim: A Murder in Small-Town Japan
Its motto was “the smallest village with the brightest future”—until the massacre.
By
Shōko Egawa
| December 3, 2019
Alaska: Northern Noir
Crime fiction has found a strange home in the cold wilds of Alaska.
By
Paul French
| December 2, 2019
Our Boys From Jefferson Street: Reckoning with the Murder of Jimmy Hoffa and a Culture of Tarnished Men
Mauro Altamura signed up as an extra on 'The Irishman'—he'd been struggling with the legacy of the Hoffa killing for 50 years.
By
Mauro Altamura
| November 27, 2019
Knives Out
Is a Surprisingly Subversive Mystery
Rian Johnson's new movie celebrates the whodunit—while also skewering its traditional power structure to condemn the 1%
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| November 27, 2019
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Growing Up in the Midst of a Low-Level Civil War
By
Michael Hughes
| November 26, 2019
The Rising Stars of Crime Fiction in the 2010s
By
CrimeReads
| November 25, 2019
Louisa May Alcott’s Forgotten Thrillers Are Revolutionary Examples of Early Feminism
By
stephaniesylverne
| November 22, 2019
How a Gang of Heavy Metal Stoners Went to 1980s L.A. and Became the Notorious MS-13
In the 1980s, L.A. was a mecca for street gangs. When civil war drove thousands of Salvadorans there, a violent new culture grew.
By
Óscar Martínez and Juan José Martínez
| November 21, 2019
A Tale of Two Sex Worker
Heist Stories
Aya de Leon on
Hustlers
, social justice, and the complicated intersection of feminism and crime.
By
Aya de Leon
| November 21, 2019
Film Noir Perfectly Captures the Mass Torment and Paranoia of the Mid-Twentieth Century
Movies and Literature Were Insistent that Society was a Madhouse
By
Troy Rondinone
| November 20, 2019
Psycho
Invented the Spoiler Alert as We Know It
A very personal history of trying to prevent spoiling cinema's first great shocking twist (and yes, there are spoilers ahead)
By
Jesse Pasternack
| November 19, 2019
Tinker, Tailor, Wizard, Spy: The Joys (and Dangers) of Blending Genre Elements
“Forget it, Frodo. It’s Mordor.”
By
W. L. Goodwater
| November 19, 2019
Tarot Cards Contain All the Potential of Literature's Greatest Stories
And it's always a mystery how things will end.
By
Julie Mayhew
| November 19, 2019
New Delhi: Crime Books in the Indian Capital
A major world city produces a major haul of crime fiction.
By
Paul French
| November 18, 2019
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