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S. A. Cosby: Interview and Cover Reveal

S. A. Cosby: Interview and Cover Reveal

"[Southern noir] is the gospel of the dispossessed."

By CrimeReads | September 19, 2022

Florence Fiction: A Criminal Renaissance

Florence Fiction: A Criminal Renaissance

Crime and the City visits the birthplace of the Renaissance, a city known for art, style, food...and mystery.

By Paul French | September 19, 2022

Goodbye Brooklyn: Streets of No Return

Goodbye Brooklyn: Streets of No Return

Michael Gonzales on the borough—and the community—that shaped his life and art.

By Michael Gonzales | September 16, 2022

Five Ways to Break Up, According to Michael Mann’s Films

Five Ways to Break Up, According to Michael Mann’s Films

Breakups are hard. Too many mistakes, regrets, recriminations. Too many SWAT team members assembling outside...

By Nick Kolakowski | September 16, 2022

Five Mystery Novels That Prioritize Character, Style, and Insight

Five Mystery Novels That Prioritize Character, Style, and Insight

"Genre fiction can be every bit as inventive and arty and revelatory as something dubbed literature."

By Mark Stevens | September 15, 2022

Kate Atkinson: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

Kate Atkinson: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

A study of the life and work of one of contemporary crime fiction's greatest authors.

By Neil Nyren | September 15, 2022

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By Meredith Hambrock | September 9, 2022

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By Christopher Swann | September 6, 2022

Tommy Udo: In Praise of Film Noir’s Greatest Homme Fatal

Tommy Udo: In Praise of Film Noir’s Greatest Homme Fatal

75 years later, that iconic, sadistic laugh is still reverberating through the culture.

By Zach Vasquez | September 2, 2022

Don’t Turn My Book into a TV Series

Don’t Turn My Book into a TV Series

Jason Mosberg on Hollywood's IP craze and the dream of an original idea (and an original script).

By Jason Mosberg | August 30, 2022

The Gospel According to Flannery O’Connor, Harry Crews, Toni Morrison and Donald Ray Pollock

The Gospel According to Flannery O’Connor, Harry Crews, Toni Morrison and Donald Ray Pollock

These authors "each extend Poe’s Gothic sensibility to show us the frailty of our superficial, quotidian existence."

By Jonathan Woods | August 29, 2022

The Dangers of the Open Road: 5 Key Works of Motorcycle Noir

The Dangers of the Open Road: 5 Key Works of Motorcycle Noir

Seven decades of mayhem, outlaws, and high drama

By Nick Kolakowski | August 26, 2022

Hungry Like a Dog: James Ellroy Will Not Stop Being James Ellroy

Hungry Like a Dog: James Ellroy Will Not Stop Being James Ellroy

A conversation with the author (and now podcaster) who has no intention of pulling back his writing or his personality.

By M.R. Allan | August 26, 2022

Two August Thrillers That Complicate the Definition of Victim

Two August Thrillers That Complicate the Definition of Victim

A close reading of Complicit, by Winnie M. Li, and The Last Housewife, by Ashley Winstead

By Samantha Ladwig | August 23, 2022

Bad Mutha: On the Life and Art of Isaac Hayes

Bad Mutha: On the Life and Art of Isaac Hayes

How the composer, actor, and Black Moses soul man put his indelible stamp on the culture.

By Michael Gonzales | August 19, 2022

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