• Noir/Hardboiled

    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.

    October 27, 2020  By Nicci French
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    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?

    October 26, 2020  By Nick Kolakowski
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    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.

    October 26, 2020  By Lisa Levy
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    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.

    October 23, 2020  By Ela Bittencourt
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    Toronto: Crime Fiction in North America’s Safest City

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

    October 19, 2020  By Paul French
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    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.

    October 16, 2020  By Zach Vasquez
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    Crime Writers Who Hate Writing About Crime:
    A Conversation with Layne Fargo and Wendy Heard

    The creators of the Unlikeable Female Characters Podcast on the the tricky business of fictional murder.

    October 16, 2020  By Layne Fargo
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    Justice for the Invisibles, by the Invisibles: A Brief History of Nontraditional Voices in Crime Fiction

    American crime stories featuring poor people and nontraditional voices are as old as Poe’s Dupin. And now, they're finally trending.

    October 14, 2020  By Christopher Chambers
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    Snapshots in the Life of a Criminal Data Analyst

    "While the cops are in the wireroom listening live for the street hustle, I’m at my desk with my herbal tea, listening to recorded calls. Tracing the money."

    October 14, 2020  By Brian Selfon
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    How Edward Hopper’s Stony Blonde Became a Noir Icon

    On The Femme Fatale Who Flipped the Script

    October 14, 2020  By Stephanie Kane
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