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Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #33

Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #33

Criss Cross (1949)

By Otto Penzler | February 10, 2020

'The Outsider' Is a Classic Monster Story. So Why Disguise It as a Detective Show?

'The Outsider' Is a Classic Monster Story. So Why Disguise It as a Detective Show?

HBO's new Stephen King adaptation plays a complex genre game.

By Olivia Rutigliano | February 7, 2020

<em>American Dirt</em> Is The Latest Shot Fired in the Genre Wars

American Dirt Is The Latest Shot Fired in the Genre Wars

American Dirt may be trauma porn, but that doesn't mean that a novel engaged with politics has to be literary—on the contrary, commercial fiction reaches a far wider audience.

By Aya de Leon | February 7, 2020

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

The New Wave of Thrillers Featuring Deeply Flawed Characters

The New Wave of Thrillers Featuring Deeply Flawed Characters

Readers want flaws. Lots of them. They make the stories human.

By Christina McDonald | February 7, 2020

The Great Los Angeles Crime Novel—And the Women Who Are Revitalizing It

The Great Los Angeles Crime Novel—And the Women Who Are Revitalizing It

2020 Brings a Dazzling Array of Women-Authored LA Mysteries

By Wendy Heard | February 6, 2020

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On the Trail of Hollywood's Stolen Oscars

Olivia Rutigliano navigates the strange, semi-secret marketplace for Hollywood's most coveted statues.

By Olivia Rutigliano | February 5, 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

Concrete Jungle: Nairobi's Unique Brand of Noir

In a city of the displaced, searching for crime fiction is an act of excavation.

By Peter Kimani | February 5, 2020

Domestic Violence Homicide Is a Preventable Crime. So Why Aren't We Preventing It?

Domestic Violence Homicide Is a Preventable Crime. So Why Aren't We Preventing It?

Rachel Louise Snyder on domestic violence, preventable homicide, and her work of nonfiction, No Visible Bruises

By Lisa Levy | 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 Creepiest Families in Fiction

The Creepiest Families in Fiction

"What could be more commonplace, or more potentially toxic, than family life?"

By Sophie Hannah | February 4, 2020

Ten Books Where the Setting Is a Character

Ten Books Where the Setting Is a Character

From 1950s L.A. to Savannah's iconic squares, these books bring time and place alive in unforgettable ways.

By Sarah Pinborough | February 4, 2020

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