Shane’s Lot: How a 1949 Gun-Toting Loner Still Rides Through American Literature

Shane’s Lot: How a 1949 Gun-Toting Loner Still Rides Through American Literature

Maria Hummel on American Iconography and the 21st Century Revival of Western Writing

By Maria Hummel | January 10, 2024

Chris McGinley on Appalachian Literature and Noir

Chris McGinley on Appalachian Literature and Noir

McGinley and Wes Browne discuss the marriage of crime fiction and the region's distinct culture.

By Wes Browne | January 9, 2024

Was 'The Leopard Man' Hollywood's First Slasher Film?

Was 'The Leopard Man' Hollywood's First Slasher Film?

How Cornell Woolrich's formally innovative serial killer novel 'Black Alibi' was adapted for the screen.

By Scott Adlerberg | January 4, 2024

The Queen of Grit Lit has a New Novel

The Queen of Grit Lit has a New Novel

Bonnie Jo Campbell talks with Chris McGinley about her brutal and beautiful new novel, "The Waters"

By Chris McGinley | December 21, 2023

Alexis Soloski on Theater, Criticism, and the Mystery of Performance

Alexis Soloski on Theater, Criticism, and the Mystery of Performance

The culture critic discusses her debut novel.

By Kevin Canfield | December 19, 2023

The Best Noir Fiction of 2023

The Best Noir Fiction of 2023

The best, strangest, and darkest novels from authors including Lou Berney, S.A. Cosby, Margot Douaihy, and more.

By CrimeReads | December 18, 2023

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The Discovery of 'Wind Sprints,' the Lost Ralph Dennis Novel

By Lee Goldberg | December 15, 2023

Remembering Tim Dorsey and His Wild Florida Stories

By Craig Pittman | December 13, 2023

Memory, Place, and Hauntings: On Toronto's Seedy Seventies-Era "Sin Strip"

By Richard John Parfitt | December 7, 2023

Troubled Teens in Crime Fiction

Troubled Teens in Crime Fiction

Five novels featuring teenage protagonists with complex relationships to the world around them

By Tessa Wegert | December 4, 2023

Shop Talk: Michael Farris Smith on Learning the Habit of Writing

Shop Talk: Michael Farris Smith on Learning the Habit of Writing

Crime writers talk craft, raising kids, and working without a net.

By Eli Cranor | December 1, 2023

A List of Jewish Crime Thrillers

A List of Jewish Crime Thrillers

It's a short list, but it's a good list!

By Lee Matthew Goldberg | November 17, 2023

Sudden Death and the Startlement of Absence

Sudden Death and the Startlement of Absence

On writing to exorcise "the tendrils of some horror we can’t quite process"

By Matt Phillips | November 2, 2023

The Ineffable Crimes of Lawrence Osborne

The Ineffable Crimes of Lawrence Osborne

A wide-ranging conversation with the British-born, Bangkok-based author of some of today's finest literary noirs.

By Paul French | November 1, 2023

Confessions of a Serial Anthology Editor

Confessions of a Serial Anthology Editor

On the art of assembly and the pleasures of the short form

By Maxim Jakubowski | November 1, 2023

Ruins in Rain City: <em>Trouble in Mind</em> and the Career of Alan Rudolph

Ruins in Rain City: Trouble in Mind and the Career of Alan Rudolph

The neo-noir visions of a groundbreaking director

By Michael Gonzales | October 25, 2023

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