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    A Roundtable Discussion on Climate Change and Crime Fiction’s Role in Meeting the Moment

    Authors from a new anthology explore the crimes, injustices, and consequences of this existential crisis

    October 2, 2025  By Curtis Ippolito
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    Nice Guys with Lethal Weapons: The Influential Style of Shane Black, Our Last Noir Director

    Nick Kolakowski on the Settings, Shane-Black-isms, and Signature Leitmotifs of a Long Cinematic Career

    October 1, 2025  By Nick Kolakowski
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    Let's Do the Crime Warp: Keith Roysdon Makes The Case for Keeping Settings Vintage in Contemporary Productions

    "[C]rime stories produced in contemporary times but set in the past are just as enticing and have the additional benefit of hindsight."

    October 1, 2025  By Keith Roysdon
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    The Backlist: Reading Kate Elizabeth Russell's "My Dark Vanessa" with Attica Locke

    Locke and Polly Stewart revisit Russell's powerhouse debut in the wake of #metoo and renewed misogyny

    October 1, 2025  By Polly Stewart
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    Twenty Years of Capote

    Julia Sirmons looks back on Bennett Miller's classic film

    September 30, 2025  By Julia Sirmons
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    On Writing Contemporary Mysteries vs. Historical Ones

    Sherry Thomas weighs two equally fun approaches to crime fiction

    September 30, 2025  By Sherry Thomas
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    Heist or Caper: Where Do You Stand?

    Fran Wilde asks crime authors to weigh in on the eternal debate

    September 29, 2025  By Fran Wilde
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    Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Considers the Strange Perambulations of Writing Inspiration

    On approaching the truth obliquely and paying attention to resonance across experiences

    September 26, 2025  By Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
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    The Forgotten History
    of the Fascist Plot
    Against Hollywood

    Paul Levine dives deep on the unlikely pairing that helped keep Hitler's sympathizers from taking over the film biz

    September 26, 2025  By Paul Levine
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    Five Films About Left-Wing Militants Achieving Their Goals

    Kit Burgoyne On Revolutionaries in Cinema, And Our Modern Era of Censorship

    September 26, 2025  By Kit Burgoyne
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