Hard Stuff
2011 is turning out to be a banner year for crime fiction.
September 17th, 2011“Letter From Cuba: The Religious Revival of a Communist State”By Antal Neville
Los Angeles Review of Books
Fresh Pulp and Geezer Noir
Trying to pin down the definitive characteristics of “noir” is a tiresome game.
June 23rd, 2011
Hell, Hurt, Blood, and Rapture
Noir books by Jake Hinkson, John Rector, Reed Farrel Coleman, Alan Glynn, and Harry Whittington.
January 23rd, 2012
Voyeuristic Pleasures
Books by Wallace Stroby, Alison Gaylin, Joe R. Lansdale, Hilary Davidson, Chris F. Holm, and Robert Silverberg.
March 31st, 2012
The Criminal Kind: Bardsley, Piccirilli, Woods
On "Cash Out," "Last Kind Words," and "A Death in Mexico
November 26th, 2012
Single Payer Health Insurance Bill Orphaned In California
The state of California's single payer movement
April 30th, 2013
Socialism on the Small Screen: On "Parks and Recreation"
A History of Progressivism in Pawnee
April 23rd, 2013
The “I” in the Pyramid is Outside: Heriberto Yépez and the Antihybrid
Reclaiming the category of 'hybrid' — Yépez's counterpoetics
January 19th, 2013
Wilde in the Office
August 12th, 2012
Outside the Zone: Searching for Sarai Sierra
On the killing of the 33-year-old amateur photographer
February 23rd, 2013
When the Lights Shut Off: Kendrick Lamar and the Decline of the Black Blues Narrative
Autobiography and memento mori from hip-hop's rising memoirist
January 31st, 2013
Crimson Front
I heard a student exclaim, "This isn’t a protest or demonstration — it’s a process."
November 13th, 2011
The Imagination of Norman Manea
July 11th, 2012
Fix-up Artist: The Chaotic SF of A.E. van Vogt
"The disjointed novel is more in vogue today than at any previous point in history."
April 30th, 2012
New York City, October 19: The Sense of a Movement
Does this movement want to curb the plutocrats? Or does it just want to be?
October 21st, 2011
Books
Authors
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Charles Yu
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Genres
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
