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Gated Community Noir

Gated Community Noir

These seemingly nice neighborhoods conceal dark secrets

By Molly Odintz | July 26, 2024

We Need More Crime Fiction By Defense Attorneys

We Need More Crime Fiction By Defense Attorneys

"[W]hat defenders do is slow, patient, grinding, and infected with uncertainty. We don’t have the whole story, and we never will."

By Joshua Perry | July 25, 2024

Ace Atkins On Writing A Crime Novel Steeped in the Blues

Ace Atkins On Writing A Crime Novel Steeped in the Blues

"All that time listening to Vocalion records and reading ragged old Dell paperbacks would finally pay off."

By Ace Atkins | July 23, 2024

8 Thrillers and Horror Novels Set at Terrible Summer Camps

8 Thrillers and Horror Novels Set at Terrible Summer Camps

These books will have you sending a postcard to your parents begging to come home early...

By Molly Odintz | July 19, 2024

The Backlist: Margot Douaihy and Polly Stewart Revisit Patricia Highsmith's 'Edith's Diary'

The Backlist: Margot Douaihy and Polly Stewart Revisit Patricia Highsmith's 'Edith's Diary'

Discussing Highsmith's classic of toxic suburbia

By Polly Stewart | July 17, 2024

Choose Your Own Adventure: Whodunnit

Choose Your Own Adventure: Whodunnit

Part game, part quiz, part Mad-Libs

By Olivia Rutigliano | July 10, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

The Weird Fiction
That Influenced an
Even Weirder Writer

By Evan J. Peterson | July 10, 2024

Chris Offutt on Nature, Appalachia, and the "Code of the Hills"

By Chris McGinley | July 9, 2024

Choose Your Own Adventure: Noir

By Olivia Rutigliano | July 3, 2024

Rob Hart on ‘Assassins Anonymous’ and the Dark Appeal of the Assassin Genre

Rob Hart on ‘Assassins Anonymous’ and the Dark Appeal of the Assassin Genre

"The assassin fits within that same mold as the gunslinger or the private eye or the ronin samurai. They're guided by an internal moral compass that sometimes feels more precise than the law. So I think there's some wish fulfillment there."

By Nick Kolakowski | June 27, 2024

In Memory Of Thuglit, The Lit Mag You Should Have Read

In Memory Of Thuglit, The Lit Mag You Should Have Read

James Queally on the life and times of a bygone noir institution.

By James Queally | June 14, 2024

James Lee Burke on Hemingway, Orwell, and a New Chapter in the American Battle Against Fascism

James Lee Burke on Hemingway, Orwell, and a New Chapter in the American Battle Against Fascism

Another wide-ranging conversation on the state of a nation's soul.

By David Masciotra | June 11, 2024

Why Humor is one of the Sharpest Tools in a Writer’s Arsenal

Why Humor is one of the Sharpest Tools in a Writer’s Arsenal

Levity doesn't undercut the power of a novel—it amplifies the emotional weight of a scene

By Rob Hart | June 11, 2024

The Backlist: Joe R. Lansdale on a Forgotten Classic of Southern Noir

The Backlist: Joe R. Lansdale on a Forgotten Classic of Southern Noir

Lansdale and Polly Stewart discuss James Ross's 1940 novel, 'They Don't Dance Much'

By Polly Stewart | June 10, 2024

Alejandro Nodarse on Writing a Thriller About the Real Miami

Alejandro Nodarse on Writing a Thriller About the Real Miami

"We know what you think of us. We’re putting on the show, remember?"

By Alejandro Nodarse | June 7, 2024

Greg Iles On a Lifetime <br>of Crime Writing

Greg Iles On a Lifetime
of Crime Writing

The author of the Penn Cage novels reflects on his iconic character and his long fight against historical amnesia

By Matthew Coleman Turbeville | June 5, 2024

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