• Essays

    The Secret Life of Plants as Murder Weapons

    Plants make for great thrillers—it took me, a gardener, years to figure that out.

    November 18, 2019  By Karen Hugg
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    The Strange Cultural Legacy of Charlie's Angels

    The Angels have always existed in the borderlands between feminism and the patriarchy.

    November 15, 2019  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Crimen Latino: Latin Crime Fiction Is the Genre’s New Wave

    The new noir moves between borders, languages, and cultures.

    November 15, 2019  By Gabino Iglesias
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    25 Years Later, Reconsidering the Fallout from Heavenly Creatures

    A real-life story of love, coming-of-age, murder, film adaptation, and pseudonymous crime writing.

    November 15, 2019  By Nile Cappello
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    The Playboy and the Publisher: A Murder Story

    The tragic tale of Willoughby Sharp, dilettante Golden Age crime writer, and Claude Kendall, his golden boy publisher

    November 14, 2019  By Curtis Evans
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    Brooklyn Bad Boyz:
    The Night I Was Shot

    In 2011, Michael Gonzales was shot on his doorstep in Brooklyn. Unexpectedly, the bullet traced back to a legendary hip-hop feud.

    November 13, 2019  By Michael Gonzales
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    Femmes Fatales
    and the Shattering of the
    Capitalist Dream  

    Reconsidering a 20th century crime trope, and what it says about the evolution of noir.

    November 13, 2019  By Nick Kolakowski
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    When You Write Your Worst Fears in Your Novel—And Then They Come True

    When fictional tragedies materialize in real-life.

    November 12, 2019  By Amber Cowie
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    Motherless Brooklyn Is About the Mystery of Self-Expression—Adapting It Was Never Going to Be Easy

    A postmodern '90s novel becomes a '50s noir.

    November 8, 2019  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    The Most Cathartic Moments of Movie Violence

    10 iconic moments of cinema that prove the power of violence

    November 8, 2019  By Zach Vasquez
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