• Noir/Hardboiled

    Cornell Woolrich, the Dark Prince of Noir

    David Gordon on the world of Woolrich, ruled by fate, laced with poetry, unspooling like a dream.

    June 6, 2022  By David Gordon
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    Kathmandu: Murder in the Mountain Kingdom

    Crime and the City visits Nepal's capital, finding a spiritual homeland, a notorious serial killer, and lots of backpacker noir.

    June 6, 2022  By Paul French
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    True Crime Beyond the Genre

    These works engage with the tropes of true crime while questioning them.

    June 1, 2022  By Maria Adelmann
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    Your Guide to the Best New Shows Coming Out This Month

    Featuring Leaphorn and Chee, Jeff Bridges in a Thomas Perry adaptation, and more Murders in the Building

    May 31, 2022  By Dwyer Murphy
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    Crime Novels With a Strong Sense of Place and Inimitable Atmosphere

    Matt Goldman on some contemporary classics that simply couldn't have been set anywhere else.

    May 31, 2022  By Matt Goldman
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    James Lee Burke on Personal Tragedy, National Trauma, and the Search for Salvation

    "The story of Eden, and how it influences my work, is not the story of a snake in a tree, but the story of what we are doing to the tree – what we are doing to the Garden."

    May 24, 2022  By David Masciotra
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    On Gentrification, Cultural Appropriation, and Community

    "More than ever, people of color are fighting back to reclaim what has been stolen from us."

    May 23, 2022  By Rodrigo Ribera d'Ebre
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    An Interview With Tim Maskell, Location Manager for Shetland

    “The stories of Shetland are impossible to imagine apart from their setting, steeped as they are in the islands’ brooding skies, barren landscape, and ever-present sea.”

    May 23, 2022  By Frederick Weisel
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    On Rock and Roll and Toxic Masculinity

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

    May 18, 2022  By Charles Harper Webb
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    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.

    May 13, 2022  By Keith Roysdon
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