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On Rock and Roll and Toxic Masculinity

On Rock and Roll and Toxic Masculinity

What Charles Harper Webb's time in a rock band taught him about the struggle for power.

By Charles Harper Webb | May 18, 2022

Black and White and Noir All Over: A Brief History of Vintage Newspaper Crime Comic Strips

Black and White and Noir All Over: A Brief History of Vintage Newspaper Crime Comic Strips

Keith Roysdon on a once wildly popular, now mostly forgotten art.

By Keith Roysdon | May 13, 2022

Sara Paretsky: V.I. <br>Warshawski and My Quest for Voice and Justice

Sara Paretsky: V.I.
Warshawski and My Quest for Voice and Justice

"V. I. Warshawski becomes not just my voice in the world, but the expresser of my own conflicts over morality."

By Sara Paretsky | May 10, 2022

John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee Novels, Ranked

John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee Novels, Ranked

Peter Swanson revisits an iconic crime fiction series, in its entirety.

By Peter Swanson | May 6, 2022

Tough Mothers: Seven Dark Novels About Motherhood

Tough Mothers: Seven Dark Novels About Motherhood

This Mother's Day, consider the noir perspective...

By Zach Vasquez | May 6, 2022

Poliziotteschi"> 50 Years of

50 Years of

Poliziotteschi">

Poliziotteschi">50 Years of "Milano Calibro 9" and Italian Cinema's Ultra-Noir Poliziotteschi

Andrew Nette on the distinctive crime films that emerged from Italy’s anni di piombo

By Andrew Nette | May 5, 2022

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Isolation as the Enemy

By Victoria Helen Stone | May 2, 2022

Your Guide to the Best Crime Shows Coming Out This Month

By Dwyer Murphy | April 29, 2022

How Dorothy B. Hughes' In a Lonely Place Brought a New, Disturbing Kind of Noir to the Postwar American Experience

By Elizabeth D. Samet | April 27, 2022

Why the Mystery Novel Is a Perfect Literary Form

Why the Mystery Novel Is a Perfect Literary Form

David Gordon on the long, rich history of private eyes – and why contemporary novelists keep on turning to them.

By David Gordon | April 26, 2022

Don Winslow on New England Roots, Greek Poetry, and Clams in Broth

Don Winslow on New England Roots, Greek Poetry, and Clams in Broth

With City on Fire, the author returns home and finds a new epic.

By Dwyer Murphy | April 26, 2022

Shop Talk: David Joy Hates Talking About Craft (But He's Going to Make an Exception)

Shop Talk: David Joy Hates Talking About Craft (But He's Going to Make an Exception)

"It’s really a compulsion. I’d feel like I’d die if I didn’t get these stories out of me."

By Eli Cranor | April 21, 2022

Blood and Belonging: Seven Novels of Crime and Coming-of-Age

Blood and Belonging: Seven Novels of Crime and Coming-of-Age

Samantha Jayne Allen on fiction that explores a very particular moment of youth.

By Samantha Jayne Allen | April 20, 2022

Ten Crime Novels with Isolated Settings

Ten Crime Novels with Isolated Settings

These books ramp up the tension by placing their characters in impossible-to-escape scenarios.

By Nell Pattison | April 14, 2022

Faroe Islands: The Most Remote Outpost of Scandi Noir

Faroe Islands: The Most Remote Outpost of Scandi Noir

A few good mystery novels help to pass the long winter nights on this North Atlantic archipelago.

By Paul French | April 11, 2022

<em>Tokyo Vice</em> Revisits the Last Days of a Striking Genre

Tokyo Vice Revisits the Last Days of a Striking Genre

The new series, which is about journalists, police, and yakuza circling one another in milennium-era Japan, is invested in the long history, and fading future, of such a triangle.

By Olivia Rutigliano | April 8, 2022

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