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The Great Works of Prison Fiction

The Great Works of Prison Fiction

Exploring the extremes of humanity from a setting where the walls are closing in, power is twisted, and the violence is open.

By Nicci French | October 27, 2020

Western Noir: Smashing Together Two Genres, What Do You Get?

Western Noir: Smashing Together Two Genres, What Do You Get?

If the western is about delivering justice and noir is about the depths of the void, how can the two genres coexist?

By Nick Kolakowski | October 26, 2020

Elizabeth Hand on Outsiders, Punks, and the Crime Fiction of Subcultures

Elizabeth Hand on Outsiders, Punks, and the Crime Fiction of Subcultures

If you're not reading the Cass Neary series already, now's the time.

By Lisa Levy | October 26, 2020

Rubem Fonseca: Modernist Crime Fiction's Reluctant Star

Rubem Fonseca: Modernist Crime Fiction's Reluctant Star

Fonseca captured the life of Rio de Janeiro like nobody else. Revisiting his work now, after his death, is an uncanny experience.

By Ela Bittencourt | October 23, 2020

Toronto: Crime Fiction in North America’s Safest City

Toronto: Crime Fiction in North America’s Safest City

The mystery scene is booming in Canada's largest city.

By Paul French | October 19, 2020

<em>Killing Them Softly</em> Is the Desperate, Pitch-Black Noir That Perfectly Captures What America Has Become

Killing Them Softly Is the Desperate, Pitch-Black Noir That Perfectly Captures What America Has Become

The 2012 film adapted the George V. Higgins classic and predicted the country's bleak road ahead.

By Zach Vasquez | October 16, 2020

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Crime Writers Who Hate Writing About Crime:
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By Layne Fargo | October 16, 2020

Justice for the Invisibles, by the Invisibles: A Brief History of Nontraditional Voices in Crime Fiction

By Christopher Chambers | October 14, 2020

Snapshots in the Life of a Criminal Data Analyst

By Brian Selfon | October 14, 2020

How Edward Hopper’s Stony Blonde Became a Noir Icon

How Edward Hopper’s Stony Blonde Became a Noir Icon

On The Femme Fatale Who Flipped the Script

By Stephanie Kane | October 14, 2020

No Adam for Eve: The Quiet History of Lesbian Pulp Fiction

No Adam for Eve: The Quiet History of Lesbian Pulp Fiction

Mid-century pulps featuring women in love were meant to titillate straight men, but soon found their way to a lesbian audience desperate for representation.

By Chloe Maveal | October 12, 2020

James Crumley's Unofficial Rules for Writing

James Crumley's Unofficial Rules for Writing

Craft lessons distilled from one of crime fiction's all-time greats.

By Dwyer Murphy | October 12, 2020

How Elmore Leonard Really Wrote His Novels—According to His Characters

How Elmore Leonard Really Wrote His Novels—According to His Characters

"So he names us and he says okay start talking."

By Dwyer Murphy | October 9, 2020

Chandler and the Fox: The Mid-Century Correspondence Between Raymond Chandler and James M. Fox

Chandler and the Fox: The Mid-Century Correspondence Between Raymond Chandler and James M. Fox

Chandler's letters to a younger crime writer offer a revealing—and often ugly—glimpse into his later years.

By Curtis Evans | October 8, 2020

The Con: Portraits of Grifters and Scam Artists in Book, Film, and Real Life

The Con: Portraits of Grifters and Scam Artists in Book, Film, and Real Life

"The con artist has a special gift for knowing what we want and giving it to us, then taking what they were after all along."

By Lisa Unger | October 8, 2020

The Strange History of Mickey Spillane and New Zealand's

The Strange History of Mickey Spillane and New Zealand's "Jukebox Killer"

In 1950s New Zealand, public fear over American pulp novels reached its unlikely peak, with one boy stabbed and another hanged for it.

By Andrew Nette | October 7, 2020

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