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    Noir in the Land of Enchantment

    Noir in the Land of Enchantment

    "Conquered and reconquered, colonized and commodified, Santa Fe understands—from historical genocide to the murders of family members—the intimacy of violence."

    By Ariel Gore | March 5, 2020

    The Man Who Turned on the Here: On the Lam in Mexico with Ken Kesey

    The Man Who Turned on the Here: On the Lam in Mexico with Ken Kesey

    Robert Stone recounts a visit to Kesey's fugitive camp, an encounter with a Mexican agent, and a long discussion about drugs and life.

    By Robert Stone | March 3, 2020

    A Brief History of Sex and Espionage

    A Brief History of Sex and Espionage

    How lust, emotional intimacy, and honeypots influence spy games and shape the world order.

    By Michael Smith | February 28, 2020

    A Brief History of <br>After-Hours Clubs

    A Brief History of
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    How new music, new drugs, and new communities sprang up in the legal gray zone known as the 'after-hours club.'

    By Terry Williams | February 26, 2020

    The Femme Fatale: A Brief History of Beauty as a Surprisingly Effective Legal Defense

    The Femme Fatale: A Brief History of Beauty as a Surprisingly Effective Legal Defense

    History teaches us there are five rules to getting away with murder.

    By Laura James | February 25, 2020

    A Modern-Day Explorer, a Costa Rican Jungle, and the Search for a Lost Son

    A Modern-Day Explorer, a Costa Rican Jungle, and the Search for a Lost Son

    Roman Dial's son hiked into the jungle and never returned. Dial launched an incredible years-long search for answers.

    By Roman Dial | February 19, 2020

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    Edgar Rice Burroughs and the City of Los Angeles

    Edgar Rice Burroughs and the City of Los Angeles

    Inside Burroughs' prescient novel of harassment and Hollywood.

    By Steph Cha | February 7, 2020

    My Uncle, The Librarian-Spy

    My Uncle, The Librarian-Spy

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

    By Kathy Peiss | February 5, 2020

    How Raymond Chandler and the Tate-LaBianca Murders Inspired the Making of <em>Chinatown</em>

    How Raymond Chandler and the Tate-LaBianca Murders Inspired the Making of Chinatown

    The strange, unlikely events in 1969 that set Robert Towne on a course to write one of the greatest films ever made.

    By Sam Wasson | February 4, 2020

    The Noir Poetry and Doomed Romanticism of Cornell Woolrich

    The Noir Poetry and Doomed Romanticism of Cornell Woolrich

    Illuminating the lost classic "Waltz into Darkness"

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    Get Radcliff!: The Search for Black Pulp's Forgotten Author

    Get Radcliff!: The Search for Black Pulp's Forgotten Author

    Gary Phillips on the trail of Roosevelt Mallory, who helped revolutionize 1970s pulp fiction, then disappeared.

    By Gary Phillips | December 10, 2019

    Blowback: Late 1960s and ’70s Pulp and Popular Fiction about the Vietnam War

    Blowback: Late 1960s and ’70s Pulp and Popular Fiction about the Vietnam War

    When soldiers returned home, a new wave of crime fiction captured the trauma—and the moral abyss.

    By Andrew Nette | December 3, 2019

    Rediscovering Dorothy B. Hughes' Brutal Hollywood Take-Down, <em>Dread Journey</em>

    Rediscovering Dorothy B. Hughes' Brutal Hollywood Take-Down, Dread Journey

    Sarah Weinman reflects on the outsized contributions and little-known gems of a giant of noir.

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