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    Havana to Miami: Crime Fiction Across the Straits of Florida

    Havana to Miami: Crime Fiction Across the Straits of Florida

    Leonardo Padura & Alex Segura talk about noir, hometowns, homelands, and how being a crime writer in Cuba has evolved.

    By Alex Segura | July 15, 2019

    Hollywood Will Never Give Up Making Hardboiled Movies

    Hollywood Will Never Give Up Making Hardboiled Movies

    Jim Thompson and William Lindsay Gresham have proven difficult to adapt to screen. Directors can't resist the challenge—or the noir.

    By Zach Vasquez | July 15, 2019

    Bali: The Darker Side of an Island Paradise

    Bali: The Darker Side of an Island Paradise

    Drugs, Gangs, Expats...and Crime Literature on the Rise

    By Paul French | July 15, 2019

    What Fiction Teaches Us About The Allure of Cults

    What Fiction Teaches Us About The Allure of Cults

    People don't join cults. They join communities that become cults. Literature can help us understand this all-important nuance.

    By Kali Wallace | July 12, 2019

    Grappling with PTSD <br>in Crime Fiction

    Grappling with PTSD
    in Crime Fiction

    Forget the PTSD-fueled psychotic killer of pop culture lore. Crime novels are capable of a far more complex treatment.

    By Hilary Davidson | July 11, 2019

    Hannibal Lecter: 20 Years Later

    Hannibal Lecter: 20 Years Later

    The last Hannibal Lecter book was a publishing phenomenon like no other—it left a long, strange legacy.

    By Patrick J. Sauer | July 10, 2019

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    By S. L. Huang | July 10, 2019

    Silence, Suffering, and Abuse in Affluent Communities

    By Cate Holahan | July 9, 2019

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #48

    By Otto Penzler | July 9, 2019

    It's Time for Urban Fiction to Get Some Literary Respect

    It's Time for Urban Fiction to Get Some Literary Respect

    Other genres have gone mainstream. Why does the publishing world offer up the same old excuses about urban fiction?

    By Aya de Leon | July 8, 2019

    The Wicked Women of 19th Century Fiction

    The Wicked Women of 19th Century Fiction

    On the archetypes of female villainy, from “Women on-the-Make” to “Spiteful Shrews and Harridans.”

    By Laura L. Sullivan | July 8, 2019

    The Greatest Moral Compromises in Crime Fiction

    The Greatest Moral Compromises in Crime Fiction

    Celebrating the literature of slippery relationships, villainous allies, and morally dubious life decisions.

    By Carl Vonderau | July 8, 2019

    The Most Terrifying Buildings in Literature

    The Most Terrifying Buildings in Literature

    Forget haunted houses—apartments and hotels can be creepy, too.

    By Riley Sager | July 3, 2019

    Gritty Old New York Movies: My Home Bittersweet Home

    Gritty Old New York Movies: My Home Bittersweet Home

    The streets were dirty, crime was up, and the culture was alive.

    By David Gordon | July 2, 2019

    Bollywood Noir

    Bollywood Noir

    As India's mainstream politicians become more right-wing, its entertainment industry finds answers in noir.

    By akankshasingh | July 1, 2019

    Crime and the City: Dubai

    Crime and the City: Dubai

    Raffish port city of the Middle East or playground of a global elite?

    By Paul French | July 1, 2019

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