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    5 Classics of Cyberpunk Noir

    5 Classics of Cyberpunk Noir

    Cyberpunk and crime fiction evolved out of the pulps, and their shared outsider DNA still connects them.

    By Nick Kolakowski | October 10, 2019

    Lee Child Grapples With Mortality, Sales, Rivals, and Successors

    Lee Child Grapples With Mortality, Sales, Rivals, and Successors

    Who could take over the Jack Reacher series? Child wonders.

    By Andy Martin | October 9, 2019

    Forget Writing What You Know. Write Where You Know.

    Forget Writing What You Know. Write Where You Know.

    When I chose to set my book in the depressed coastal town where I spent my childhood, I knew it couldn't be anything other than a crime novel.

    By A.S. Hatch | October 9, 2019

    A Reading List for Mental Health

    A Reading List for Mental Health

    Or, 5 books that can help, when everything else hurts.

    By Patricia Shanae Smith | October 8, 2019

    The Crime Fiction of Rangoon / Yangon

    The Crime Fiction of Rangoon / Yangon

    A tradition of noir in a turbulent, evolving city.

    By Paul French | October 7, 2019

    Who's Buried in John Dillinger's Tomb?

    Who's Buried in John Dillinger's Tomb?

    The long afterlife of America's favorite outlaw.

    By Crawford Smith | October 7, 2019

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    By Tobias Carroll | October 7, 2019

    Your Guide to the Essential Crime TV of October

    By Camille LeBlanc | October 4, 2019

    From Boston To Cape Cod and Back Again—In Crime Fiction

    By Peter Colt | October 2, 2019

    On Crafting a Pioneering Queer Crime Fiction Series

    On Crafting a Pioneering Queer Crime Fiction Series

    "I had a revelation: the private eye in noir fiction was a perfect metaphor for how gay men navigated the 'normal' world where both were outsiders."

    By Michael Nava | October 1, 2019

    Martin Scorsese’s Gangland Sagas and the Dream of Upward Social Mobility

    Martin Scorsese’s Gangland Sagas and the Dream of Upward Social Mobility

    For decades, the director has been charting a dark, debauched journey up the criminal ladder.

    By Zach Vasquez | September 26, 2019

    September's Best Debut Fiction

    September's Best Debut Fiction

    Literary spies, dogged reporters, and a fight against contagion.

    By CrimeReads | September 25, 2019

    Angel Luis Colón on Writing Violence, Finding New Voices, and Flipping Off the World

    Angel Luis Colón on Writing Violence, Finding New Voices, and Flipping Off the World

    The Bronx author is serious about changing the crime community.

    By Désirée Zamorano | September 25, 2019

    Now Streaming in Crime: September

    Now Streaming in Crime: September

    Your Guide to the Best Noir, Mystery, and Thrillers Now Streaming

    By Camille LeBlanc | September 25, 2019

    Hog Noir and the Morally Ambiguous Hero

    Hog Noir and the Morally Ambiguous Hero

    An infestation of feral hogs creates a bleak moral universe that can only be described in one word—noir.

    By Heather Harper Ellett | September 24, 2019

    The Mysteries of Budapest

    The Mysteries of Budapest

    The Hungarian capital's century of change, reflected in noir.

    By Paul French | September 23, 2019

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