• Essays

    Worldbuilding: Crime and Fantasy Books Have More in Common Than You Might Think

    In noir, as in fantasy, it's all about finding the right details.

    February 11, 2020  By Kelly Braffet
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    The True Crimes of Dallas: A Lifetime's Obssesion

    An author's enduring interest in hometown crime

    February 11, 2020  By Kathleen Kent
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    Stolen Art, Nazis, and the Eternal Search for Justice

    75 years after the end of WWII, the search for stolen art continues.

    February 10, 2020  By Lawrence Dudley
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    'The Outsider' Is a Classic Monster Story. So Why Disguise It as a Detective Show?

    HBO's new Stephen King adaptation plays a complex genre game.

    February 7, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    American Dirt Is The Latest Shot Fired in the Genre Wars

    American Dirt may be trauma porn, but that doesn't mean that a novel engaged with politics has to be literary—on the contrary, commercial fiction reaches a far wider audience.

    February 7, 2020  By Aya de Leon
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    The New Wave of Thrillers Featuring Deeply Flawed Characters

    Readers want flaws. Lots of them. They make the stories human.

    February 7, 2020  By Christina McDonald
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    My Brother Moochie and Me

    We can't reconcile the worst actions of those we love with our love for them. Nor should we try.

    February 6, 2020  By Issac J. Bailey
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    On the Trail of Hollywood's Stolen Oscars

    Olivia Rutigliano navigates the strange, semi-secret marketplace for Hollywood's most coveted statues.

    February 5, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    My Uncle, The Librarian-Spy

    In 1943, a Harvard librarian was quietly recruited by the OSS to save the scattered books of Europe.

    February 5, 2020  By Kathy Peiss
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    Concrete Jungle: Nairobi's Unique Brand of Noir

    In a city of the displaced, searching for crime fiction is an act of excavation.

    February 5, 2020  By Peter Kimani
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