• Noir/Hardboiled

    How The French Connection Reinvented (and Exploded) the Police Procedural

    William Friedkin's 1971 masterpiece is all about the chase. That's what distinguishes it from everything that came before and after.

    September 2, 2021  By Chris McGinley
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    What to Stream This September: Robert Redford's Crime Movies

    Nothing takes you from the end of summer to the start of fall like a Robert Redford movie

    September 2, 2021  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Remembering Harry O, The Seventies' Second Best, Mostly Forgotten Private Eye Series

    'The Rockford Files' may have outshone the darker noir of 'Harry O', but David Janssen's gumshoe series had lofty ambitions, too.

    September 1, 2021  By J. Kingston Pierce
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    Manhunter Takes Down Thief: How Michael Mann’s Early Career Led to ‘Heat’

    'Heat' is the director's masterpiece. It was also the culmination of decades of experimenting with the archetypal cops and thieves.

    August 31, 2021  By Nick Kolakowski
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    Portland: Noir in the City of Roses

    Portland has inspired its fair share of crime novels. From its hardscrabble past to today's hot button issues, it's a city living on a knife's edge.

    August 30, 2021  By Paul French
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    Megan Abbott Discusses How to Create an Atmosphere of Dread, Anxiety, and Obsession

    This Week on Unlikeable Female Characters Podcast

    August 27, 2021  By Unlikeable Female Characters 
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    The Power of Totalitarian Noir

    Stories about cops and detectives working within authoritarian systems have always had a complex appeal. For one author, those stories now seem closer to home.

    August 27, 2021  By Thomas Mullen
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    In These Crime Books, The City Is As Much A Character As A Backdrop

    "Cities are full of grifters on the make, the downtrodden and the lost, and the sound of easy money. The D.N.A. of crime fiction."

    August 27, 2021  By Alan Parks
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    Can We Talk About Caroline Blackwood, Please?

    Caroline Blackwood was much more than a muse. She was one of the greatest, darkest writers who ever lived.

    August 26, 2021  By Virginia Feito
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    Why Are Westerns So Violent? Because They Have To Be.

    To write about the Old West without incorporating violence is to do a grave injustice to the historical victims of colonialism, genocide, sexual violence, and cultural erasure.

    August 25, 2021  By Gordy Sauer
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