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The Myth and the Reality of Violence in the Old West
"If our hope is for a more robust understanding of history, we must seek out the true villains in every story and update our myths accordingly."
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Chase Pletts
| September 29, 2022
O Brother, Where Art Thou Contemporary Southern Women Writers?
How the "And Flannery" affliction erases Southern women writers.
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Kelly J. Ford
| September 28, 2022
On Theda Bara and the Origins of the Vamp
Or, How Rudyard Kipling Brought Sex to the Movies
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Michael Mayo
| September 27, 2022
How Rudy Ruiz and His Neo-Western Aim to Change the Conversation About the U.S.-Mexico Border
A Tortured History in the Valley of Shadows
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Rudy Ruiz
| September 27, 2022
Six YA Thrillers where Teens Fight the System
In these books, adolescents question everything...
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Stephanie Kuehn
| September 26, 2022
Joe R. Lansdale and Jussi Piironen Talk Graphic Novels and Noir
"When you actually present the characters, you have to hope the art, their appearance, is convincing and satisfying for the audience." - Joe R. Lansdale
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CrimeReads
| September 26, 2022
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Why Lawyers Make Such Good (and Bad) Mystery Novelists
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Allen Eskens
| September 20, 2022
S. A. Cosby: Interview and Cover Reveal
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| September 19, 2022
Florence Fiction: A Criminal Renaissance
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Paul French
| September 19, 2022
Goodbye Brooklyn: Streets of No Return
Michael Gonzales on the borough—and the community—that shaped his life and art.
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Michael Gonzales
| September 16, 2022
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...
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Nick Kolakowski
| September 16, 2022
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."
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Mark Stevens
| September 15, 2022
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.
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Neil Nyren
| September 15, 2022
The Language of Brutality
How we speak of violence, what we name it, how we show it, and why it matters.
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Rijula Das
| September 13, 2022
Messy Women in Crime Fiction: A Reading List
"There’s just something so compelling about a female character trying to fix her life when it, or she, is in shambles."
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Meredith Hambrock
| September 9, 2022
Five Novels With Deeply Troubled Protagonists
Sometimes, we want complicated...
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Christopher Swann
| September 6, 2022
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