• Noir/Hardboiled

    Rethinking the Meaning of "Border Noir"

    "Borders, like crime novels, let people be in many places at once: the familiar, the unfamiliar and the space between the two."

    July 14, 2020  By Alex Gilly
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    10 New Books Coming Out
    This Week

    New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    July 13, 2020  By CrimeReads 
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    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 8

    Out of the Past (1947)

    July 13, 2020  By Otto Penzler
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    The Massively Popular, Mostly Forgotten Craze for American Style Noir in WWII-Era Britain

    In 1939, amidst violence and wartime shortages, one hardboiled noir took the nation by storm, provoked moral outrage, and inspired legions of imitators.

    July 9, 2020  By Andrew Nette
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    A Brief History of Queer Women Detectives in Crime Fiction

    "The first well-drawn, fully-developed queer women characters I ever encountered were in the pages of crime fiction."

    July 8, 2020  By Kristen Lepionka
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    Breathing Through the Wound

    Víctor del Árbol

    "Strolling the deserted streets of Madrid at that hour of indecision—when everything is on the verge of happening but nothing yet has—redeemed the city, concealing its misery, creating a false sense of benevo­lence."

    July 7, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 9

    White Heat (1949)

    July 6, 2020  By Otto Penzler
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    My Writing Will Never Be as Good as Charles Willeford's

    But I keep on writing anyway.

    July 3, 2020  By Chip Mosher
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    Let It Bleed: Anti-heroes at the crossroads of crime fiction and popular music

    The history of music is full of outlaws and criminals, killers and their victims, shady dealers and backstage dreamers...

    June 29, 2020  By S.W. Lauden
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    Ottessa Moshfegh on Dreams, Nightmares, and a Rediscovered Novel

    The author of some of the darkest, most disturbing novels in years wants people to know: she's not April Ludgate.

    June 24, 2020  By Michael Seidlinger
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