• Urban fiction

    Cutthroat Corporate Culture, Literally: Five Mysteries and Thrillers Set in the Workplace

    L.S. Stratton Recommends Office Tales from Emma Rosenblum, Amina Akhtar, Chandler Baker, and More

    September 2, 2025  By L. S. Stratton
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    Boxing as Craft: What Getting Punched in the Face Taught Ken Jaworowski About Writing

    The Author of "What About the Bodies" on the Poetry and Literary Lessons He Found in the Ring

    September 2, 2025  By Ken Jaworowski
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    Never Too Old for Murder: Why an Elderly Woman Character Is the Perfect Serial Killer

    Samantha Downing on Using Ageism and Gendered Assumptions to Hide in Plain Sight

    August 12, 2025  By Samantha Downing
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    Scandals, Cliques, Judgment: Six Novels Where Competitive Parenting Goes Off the Rails

    Jennifer Jabaley Recommends Liane Moriarty, Bruce Holsinger, Laurie Gelman, and More

    August 5, 2025  By Jennifer Jabaley
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    When Harlem Was Harlem: On 'Across 110th Street'

    Remembering Barry Michael Cooper and a film tradition in Harlem.

    March 6, 2025  By Michael Gonzales
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    London and the Long, Dark shadow of Charles Dickens

    How do you write about a place that has been written about so much, and so famously?

    July 14, 2022  By Simon Toyne
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    Payback is Forever

    Nick Kolakowski

    "The morning newspapers offered precious few developments about the amusement park massacre."

    March 24, 2022  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Poor, Black and in Real Trouble: The Baltimore Noir of Jerome Dyson Wright

    The life and times of a street lit pioneer.

    December 9, 2021  By Michael Gonzales
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    Stop Using Public Housing For Your Misery Porn

    Housing projects are places of struggle, but also optimism; they are full of human lives, and alive with human stories.

    June 30, 2021  By Gabriel Krauze
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    25+ New Releases from Black Authors to Keep You Reading All Year Long

    From cozy mysteries to hardboiled crime to international thrillers to domestic suspense, the contributions of Black authors to crime fiction as as varied as the genre itself.

    February 4, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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