• Essays

    Martin Scorsese’s Gangland Sagas and the Dream of Upward Social Mobility

    For decades, the director has been charting a dark, debauched journey up the criminal ladder.

    September 26, 2019  By Zach Vasquez
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    Joan Little and the Killing of a Jailer

    Criminal Broads Presents The Cause Célèbre

    September 26, 2019  By Tori Telfer
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    Hog Noir and the Morally Ambiguous Hero

    An infestation of feral hogs creates a bleak moral universe that can only be described in one word—noir.

    September 24, 2019  By Heather Harper Ellett
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    Remembering an Odd, Artful 'Requiem for the Detective Novel'

    In 1950, the Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt published a lost classic of crime fiction.

    September 24, 2019  By Gilly Macmillan
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    The Mysteries of Budapest

    The Hungarian capital's century of change, reflected in noir.

    September 23, 2019  By Paul French
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    General Douglas MacArthur: A Life of (Alleged) Conspiracies

    Coups, scheming businessmen, and a hidden treasure known as “Yamashita’s Gold"

    September 23, 2019  By Steve Anderson
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    The Most Wanted Woman
    in America

    An acclaimed poet, "sex magic," and a $3 million Las Vegas heist.

    September 20, 2019  By Jonathan Lee
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    Law & Order SVU Has Been Going Strong for 20 Years—But the Original Was Better

    Celebrating procedure over personal lives.

    September 20, 2019  By Lilly Dancyger
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    Authenticity is the Key for Writing a Compelling Setting

    On setting a novel in Minnesota and talking more about more than the bitter, bitter cold

    September 20, 2019  By P.J. Tracy
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    A Crime Author Grapples With the Old Question: Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?

    Reed Farrel Coleman on "borrowing from the headlines" and continuing a beloved Robert B. Parker series.

    September 19, 2019  By Reed Farrel Coleman
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