
“The distinction between complex thinking / right-answer thinking increasingly defines the difference between elite educational opportunity and education of the rest.”"If the SAT Were a Key to All Mythology" by Monica Cohen
“Snappy and Reckless”
“Tall Redhead Syndrome”
“Three-Dimensional Wistfulness”
“Pure Cain”
“Amateurs”
“The Wile E. Coyote of Crime Fiction”
“Mike Hammer is Back”
“The Criminal Kind: Geezer Noir”
“The Criminal Kind: Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg”
“The Criminal Kind: Ken Bruen”
“The Criminal Kind: Christa Faust”
“The Criminal Kind: Ed Gorman”
“The Criminal Kind: Day Keene”
“The Incomplete Cain”
“Doors Closing Slowly: Derek Raymond's Factory Novels”
“Knowing It Has to End”
“Mining the Great Midden of Genre”
“Irony Black as the Spaces Between the Stars ”
“The Terrifying Wish that Comes True: On Cain's 'The Cocktail Waitress'”
“Sticky Fingers: Megan Abbott’s Girl-On-Girl Noir”
“Strangers on a Train: Film Americana”
“The Noir Key to the 1940s”
“Nazi Noir: The Ghost of the Prophet of Fascism”
“The First Cut is the Deepest: Steph Cha's ”Follow Her Home"”
“The Death of the Hollywood Novel”

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