Articles

Reviews

• Woody Haut on You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up by Richard Hallas July 28th, 2011

  “Snappy and Reckless”

• Miles Corwin on The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women by James Ellroy June 2nd, 2011

  “Tall Redhead Syndrome”

• Dan Fante on Shortcut Man by P.G. Sturges June 23rd, 2011

  “Three-Dimensional Wistfulness”

• William Marling on James M. Cain: Hard-Boiled Mythmaker by David Madden and Kristopher Mecholsky September 21st, 2011

  “Pure Cain”

• Georgia Jeffries on The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart September 21st, 2011

  “Amateurs”

• Cullen Gallagher on Fun & Games by Duane Swierczynski September 17th, 2011

  “The Wile E. Coyote of Crime Fiction”

• Cullen Gallagher on Kiss Her Goodbye by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins September 17th, 2011

  “Mike Hammer is Back”

• Cullen Gallagher on Damn Near Dead 2: Live Noir or Die Trying by Bill Crider June 23rd, 2011

  “The Criminal Kind: Geezer Noir”

• Cullen Gallagher on By Hook or By Crook by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg June 23rd, 2011

  “The Criminal Kind: Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg”

• Cullen Gallagher on Headstone by Ken Bruen March 22nd, 2012

  “The Criminal Kind: Ken Bruen”

• Cullen Gallagher on Choke Hold by Christa Faust March 22nd, 2012

  “The Criminal Kind: Christa Faust”

• Cullen Gallagher on Bad Moon Rising by Ed Gorman March 22nd, 2012

  “The Criminal Kind: Ed Gorman”

• Cullen Gallagher on Dead Dolls Don't Talk / Hunt the Killer / Too Hot to Hold by Day Keene March 22nd, 2012

  “The Criminal Kind: Day Keene”

• Boris Dralyuk on The Complete Slayers by Paul Cain January 26th, 2012

  “The Incomplete Cain”

• Patrick Millikin on He Died with His Eyes Open, Dead Man Upright, The Devil's Home on Leave, I Was Dora Suarez and How the Dead Live by Derek Raymond, Derek Raymond, Derek Raymond, Derek Raymond and Derek Raymond April 18th, 2012

  “Doors Closing Slowly: Derek Raymond's Factory Novels”

• Megan Abbott and Boris Dralyuk on Driven by James Sallis May 7th, 2012

  “Knowing It Has to End”

• Mark Bould on Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway June 21st, 2012

  “Mining the Great Midden of Genre”

• John Langan on The Croning by Laird Barron August 24th, 2012

  “Irony Black as the Spaces Between the Stars ”

• Len Gutkin on The Cocktail Waitress by James M. Cain September 16th, 2012

  “The Terrifying Wish that Comes True: On Cain's 'The Cocktail Waitress'”

• Natasha Post Rosow on Dare Me by Megan Abbott September 30th, 2012

  “Sticky Fingers: Megan Abbott’s Girl-On-Girl Noir”

• Lawrence Christon on The Big Screen by David Thomson January 6th, 2013

  “Strangers on a Train: Film Americana”

• Jon Wiener on The Noir Forties by Richard Lingeman January 14th, 2013

  “The Noir Key to the 1940s”

• Rodger Jacobs on Death in Breslau by Marek Krajewski January 15th, 2013

  “Nazi Noir: The Ghost of the Prophet of Fascism”

• Sam Freilich on Follow Her Home by Steph Cha May 9th, 2013

  “The First Cut is the Deepest: Steph Cha's ”Follow Her Home"”

Essays

• The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future by Jennifer Egan , Sven Birkerts, Julie Cline, Meghan Daum, Ben Ehrenreich, Stephen Elliott, Sesshu Foster, Cullen Gallagher, Chris Kraus, Laila Lalami, Dinah Lenney, Ben Loory, Morgan Macgregor, Mary Otis, Gary Phillips, Padget Powell, Jane Smiley, Mark Haskell Smith, Ayelet Waldman, Casey Walker, Matt Weiland and Antoine Wilson December 23rd, 2011
• Black Blood: Ross Macdonald and the Oil Spill by Jefferson Hunter April 22nd, 2011
• Martin Beck Has a Cold by Rohan Maitzen August 5th, 2011
• Hard Stuff by Cullen Gallagher September 17th, 2011
• Fresh Pulp and Geezer Noir by Cullen Gallagher June 23rd, 2011
• Out of the Past by Neal Pollack October 14th, 2011
• Real Penguins in Imaginary Apartments by Anthony Olcott February 11th, 2012
• The Wrong Marlowe by Charles Kelly March 10th, 2012
• You Say the Swimming Pool's Half Empty, I Say the Swimming Pool's Half Full by Geoff Nicholson April 18th, 2012
• The Authority Syndicate: Javier Marias by Scott Esposito June 22nd, 2012
• Nothing More American: On James M. Cain by Steve Erickson December 10th, 2012
• Producers Anonymous: Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot by Jerome Christensen December 20th, 2012

Interviews

• Tom Lutz interviews Michael Tolkin April 18th, 2012

  “The Death of the Hollywood Novel”