• Essays

    Fictionalizing Real Trauma as a Means of Healing

    "The psychic burden would’ve been too great if I’d written the story as memoir."

    February 1, 2024  By Chris Cander
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    Electric Blue: A Personal Journey Through 'Sea of Love' and the 1980s NYC Dating Scene

    Michael Gonzales on the neo-noir classic.

    January 31, 2024  By Michael Gonzales
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    Murder Mysteries, Magic, and Mashups

    Or, How I Learned to Quit Worrying and Embrace the Crossover

    January 31, 2024  By Andrea Tang
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    Haute Couture and High Misogyny: The Bad Guys of 1970s Fashion

    "It wasn’t just hard, but almost impossible, to be a woman in fashion at this time."

    January 30, 2024  By Natasha Lester
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    Galveston, Where Gulf Coast Stormy Noirs Abound

    Crime and the City visits a Texas town with a big history.

    January 29, 2024  By Paul French
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    Inviting Nature Onto The Page

    The natural world should be a dynamic character, not a stagnant backdrop

    January 29, 2024  By Eliot Pattison
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    Requiem for "Hightown," a Queer Noir About the Rot Beneath Paradise

    The Provincetown-set noir begins its third and final season.

    January 26, 2024  By Zack Budryk
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    50 Years Later, What Is the Real Legacy of Helter Skelter?

    Bugliosi's account of the Manson Family and Tate-LaBianca killings is the best-selling true crime book of all-time. But what do we know now?

    January 26, 2024  By Nathan Smith
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    Everything I Know About Noir I Learned From Michael Mann

    Working on set with Mann was a master class in gritty storytelling

    January 26, 2024  By Gordon Greisman
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    Decolonizing the Gothic

    "Gothic literature—with its haunted homes, lonely landscapes, broken characters and longing borne of deep despair—has always been a universal story, not a western one."

    January 25, 2024  By Shubnum Khan
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