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New Nonfiction
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
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
How lust, emotional intimacy, and honeypots influence spy games and shape the world order.
By
Michael Smith
| February 28, 2020
A Brief History of
After-Hours Clubs
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
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
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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How the Earliest Crime Scene Investigators Identified Murder Victims
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Kate Winkler Dawson
| February 11, 2020
The Life and Legend of
Calamity Jane
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Karen R. Jones
| February 11, 2020
Printing Novels in the Gulag
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Varlam Shalamov
| February 10, 2020
Edgar Rice Burroughs and the City of Los Angeles
Inside Burroughs' prescient novel of harassment and Hollywood.
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Steph Cha
| February 7, 2020
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
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
Illuminating the lost classic "Waltz into Darkness"
By
Wallace Stroby
| January 8, 2020
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
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,
Dread Journey
Sarah Weinman reflects on the outsized contributions and little-known gems of a giant of noir.
By
Sarah Weinman
| December 3, 2019
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