• New Nonfiction

    The Life and Legend of
    Calamity Jane

    Martha Jane Canary was a nonconformist icon of the old West. She was also a talkative, tall-tale-telling alcoholic in the right place at the right time to make herself a legend.

    February 11, 2020  By Karen R. Jones
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    Printing Novels in the Gulag

    How Soviet prisoners turned to 19th century detective fiction to while away the long hours.

    February 10, 2020  By Varlam Shalamov
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    Edgar Rice Burroughs and the City of Los Angeles

    Inside Burroughs' prescient novel of harassment and Hollywood.

    February 7, 2020  By Steph Cha
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    My Uncle, The Librarian-Spy

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

    February 5, 2020  By Kathy Peiss
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    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.

    February 4, 2020  By Sam Wasson
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    The Noir Poetry and Doomed Romanticism of Cornell Woolrich

    Illuminating the lost classic "Waltz into Darkness"

    January 8, 2020  By Wallace Stroby
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    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.

    December 10, 2019  By Gary Phillips
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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.

    December 3, 2019  By Andrew Nette
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    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.

    December 3, 2019  By Sarah Weinman
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    The Sixth Victim: A Murder in Small-Town Japan

    Its motto was “the smallest village with the brightest future”—until the massacre.

    December 3, 2019  By Shōko Egawa
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