The Roughneck’s Lament
Would you want to spend your leisure time with this kind of darkness?
Would you want to spend your leisure time with this kind of darkness?
Keith RawsonNov 19, 2014
"Malice" is both a "well-written, well-plotted police procedural" and "the story of two writers."
Neda SemnaniNov 18, 2014
In the past 15 years there has been a blossoming of noir in South African literature — see Deon Meyer and Margie Orford.
Glenn HarperNov 1, 2014
Tod Goldberg has decided to put his own absurd twist on old mafia tales with his novel "Gangsterland."
Adam RosenOct 19, 2014
Andrew Coburn writes the suburb’s voyeurs, misfits, the covetous, the deranged, and the eccentric.
Woody HautSep 28, 2014
I WAS INTRODUCED to Nordic noir in the same way as most readers: someone handed me a copy of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. When the novel was at...
Bill LoehfelmSep 27, 2014
It should be sufficient to say that I am Juan Pablo Castel, the painter who killed Maria Iribarne. I imagine that the trial is still in everyone’s...
Scott AdlerbergSep 27, 2014
Serial killers can be pretty garish characters
Steph ChaSep 21, 2014
You’re going to have a tough time if you invoke Philip Marlowe in your LA-noir novels.
Estelle TangSep 13, 2014
The 50th anniversary of the Rabbi Small series.
Adam RosenSep 4, 2014
Clarke C. Cooke on the evolution of black crime fiction.
Clark C. CookeSep 3, 2014
Tana French always asks: how do we become adults?
Lisa LevyAug 31, 2014
Every era gets the noir it deserves.
Julia IngallsAug 30, 2014
Finding a spot in the cafeteria or a seat on the bus requires careful navigation between various identities, some self-created, and some imposed on...
Sarah SkiltonAug 26, 2014
Jean-Patrick Manchette produced violence with an almost choreographed agility. Contributor Tagline: Chris R. Morgan has previously written for VICE...
Chris MorganAug 25, 2014
The first filmmaker to fully capture the spirit of the new noir was the wild man of American cinema, Sam Fuller.
Jake HinksonAug 18, 2014
Erica Ruth Neubauer on women cops in a male-dominated genre.
Erica Ruth NeubauerJul 25, 2014
"Mad Max" meets "Murder, My Sweet."
Andrew NetteJul 18, 2014
Alice Bolin theorizes the commonality of the Dead Girl in Twin Peaks, True Detective, and Pretty Little Liars.
Alice BolinApr 28, 2014
Dick Lochte on the many incarnations of Raymond Chandler.
Dick LochteApr 19, 2014
On the making of Orson Welles’s The Lady From Shanghai.
Michael PeckMar 20, 2014
The King of Noir Woody Haut picks the best of 2013.
Woody HautDec 22, 2013
On 'the brazen weirdness' of Florida crime fiction.
J. David GonzalezJul 23, 2013
On "Cash Out," "Last Kind Words," and "A Death in Mexico
Cullen GallagherNov 26, 2012