• Essays

    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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    The Comfort of Cozies

    Joyce Tremel asks around the cozy mystery community to find out all the reasons readers return to these gems again and again.

    January 25, 2024  By Joyce Tremel
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