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    The Strange Intimacy of Domestic Suspense

    "That would never happen to me. I’d know if you were out killing people while I slept."

    June 23, 2021  By Nicole Trope
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    How the Banning of Joyce's Ulysses Led to "The Grandest Obscenity Case in the History of Law and Literature"

    Morris Ernst knew he could win the case to "liberate" Joyce's famously banned novel. So he found a publisher, took a cut of the royalties, and had a copy sent by boat to America.

    June 22, 2021  By Samantha Barbas
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    6 Debut Novels You Should Read This Month

    The best new debut novels in crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    June 22, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    It's Time for Crime Fiction to Respect Sex Workers

    "Historically, female sex workers are often portrayed as victims, easily used and discarded as plot fodder..."

    June 22, 2021  By V. Castro
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    How Elizabeth Bowen's Big Houses Laid the Groundwork for Irish Domestic Noir

    Anglo-Irish aristocrat and author Elizabeth Bowen chronicled the death of her class through her sinister depictions of the "big house."

    June 22, 2021  By Sarah Stewart Taylor
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    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

    June 21, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    A Murder in Tiger Bay: How Nadifa Mohamed's New Novel Revives a Decades-Old Tragedy

    In 1952, Mahmood Mattan was executed by the British government for a crime he didn't commit. Decades later, a new novel reimagines his world in the working-class docklands of Cardiff.

    June 21, 2021  By Paul French
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    Queer Crime Fiction: A Roundtable Discussion

    Authors join together to discuss the state of queer identity and representation in today's crime fiction.

    June 21, 2021  By Lisa Levy
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    "Now Vee May Perhaps to Begin": On Art, Theft, and Inspiration

    Laura Lippman revisits Philip Roth's 'Zuckerman Unbound'

    June 18, 2021  By Laura Lippman
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    A List of Books That Are Not Quite Noir (But Also Not Not Noir)

    "[N]oir has rules, the same way irony does, and I really don’t know what they are...Instead I’ll say this is a list of voices with some darkness in them."

    June 18, 2021  By Paul Neilan
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