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    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.

    By Sarah Weinman | December 3, 2019

    The Sixth Victim: A Murder in Small-Town Japan

    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

    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

    Film Noir Perfectly Captures the Mass Torment and Paranoia of the Mid-Twentieth Century

    Movies and Literature Were Insistent that Society was a Madhouse

    By Troy Rondinone | November 20, 2019

    Louis L'Amour and the Legend of the West

    Louis L'Amour and the Legend of the West

    Beau L'Amour Remembers the Life and Work of His Famous Father

    By Beau L'Amour | November 19, 2019

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    Richard Jewell and the Night of the Atlanta Olympics Bombing

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    The Adventures of Eugene Bullard: History's First African-American Fighter Pilot

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    The Best Nonfiction Crime Books of October

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    Lee Child Grapples With Mortality, Sales, Rivals, and Successors

    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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