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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
A study of the life and work of one of contemporary crime fiction's greatest authors.
By
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.
By
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."
By
Meredith Hambrock
| September 9, 2022
Five Novels With Deeply Troubled Protagonists
Sometimes, we want complicated...
By
Christopher Swann
| September 6, 2022
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
Best Reviewed
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Don’t Turn My Book into a TV Series
By
Jason Mosberg
| August 30, 2022
The Gospel According to Flannery O’Connor, Harry Crews, Toni Morrison and Donald Ray Pollock
By
Jonathan Woods
| August 29, 2022
The Dangers of the Open Road: 5 Key Works of Motorcycle Noir
By
Nick Kolakowski
| August 26, 2022
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
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
How the composer, actor, and Black Moses soul man put his indelible stamp on the culture.
By
Michael Gonzales
| August 19, 2022
The Five Great Novels of Dashiell Hammett
Hammett's works may have been few, but they were all brilliant.
By
Larry Beinhart
| August 10, 2022
How Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner Made 'Heat 2' – An Opus of International Crime
The evolution of an iconic crime story.
By
Nick Kolakowski
| August 9, 2022
Creating a Compelling Love Interest in a Suspense Novel
"[A]sk yourself: What does my main character need most on her journey—and how can my love interest provide that?"
By
Elissa Grossell Dickey
| August 8, 2022
High Noon in Bedford Falls: 'Cop Land' at 25
The 1997 film from James Mangold was part western, part noir, and a deeply nuanced portrait of America.
By
Zach Vasquez
| August 5, 2022
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