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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
The Sixth Victim: A Murder in Small-Town Japan
Its motto was “the smallest village with the brightest future”—until the massacre.
By
Shōko Egawa
| December 3, 2019
How a Gang of Heavy Metal Stoners Went to 1980s L.A. and Became the Notorious MS-13
In the 1980s, L.A. was a mecca for street gangs. When civil war drove thousands of Salvadorans there, a violent new culture grew.
By
Óscar Martínez and Juan José Martínez
| November 21, 2019
Film Noir Perfectly Captures the Mass Torment and Paranoia of the Mid-Twentieth Century
Movies and Literature Were Insistent that Society was a Madhouse
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Troy Rondinone
| November 20, 2019
Louis L'Amour and the Legend of the West
Beau L'Amour Remembers the Life and Work of His Famous Father
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Beau L'Amour
| November 19, 2019
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Sarah Rosenthal
| November 18, 2019
Richard Jewell and the Night of the Atlanta Olympics Bombing
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Kent Alexander and Kevin Salwen
| November 15, 2019
Escape from Berlin!
Zookeeper Edition
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J.W. Mohnhaupt
| November 12, 2019
The Adventures of Eugene Bullard: History's First African-American Fighter Pilot
He was a boxer, a wanderer, and a Foreign Legion volunteer. In 1917, he went up against the dreaded Red Baron's Flying Circus.
By
Phil Keith and Tom Clavin
| November 11, 2019
On The Hall-Mills Murders, (a) Crime of the Century
How the salacious double murder of a minister and a choir member in 1922 inspired one of the earliest legal thrillers.
By
Hank Phillippi Ryan
| November 4, 2019
The KGB's Surprisingly Effective Plan to Exile Solzhenitsyn
Inside the plan to turn the Soviet Union's most dangerous dissident into the West's least popular defector.
By
Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan
| October 28, 2019
Stieg Larsson's Unfinished True Crime Investigation into an Assassination: Day 1
For decades after the Swedish PM was assassinated, the future crime novelist waded through a web of conspiracies and extremists.
By
Jan Stocklassa
| October 21, 2019
An Ancient History of Piracy
How advances in sea power and changes in climate led to widespread piracy at the edge of the Roman Empire
By
David Abulafia
| October 21, 2019
The Best Nonfiction Crime Books of October
Assassins, Killer Musicians and Adventures with Lee Child
By
CrimeReads
| October 17, 2019
Lee Child Grapples With Mortality, Sales, Rivals, and Successors
Who could take over the Jack Reacher series? Child wonders.
By
Andy Martin
| October 9, 2019
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