Nathan Jefferson is the noir editor at Los Angeles Review of Books.
Nathan Jefferson
Articles
Hail, Caesar
Friends, Romans, countrymen: Nathan Jefferson lends his ears (and eyes) to the immersive “Julius Caesar” production at Heritage Square Museum.
The Joy of Genre: On Brooks E. Hefner’s “Black Pulp”
Nathan Jefferson reviews Brooks E. Hefner’s “Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow,” an introduction to often overlooked pulp stories that ran in Black newspapers.
Justice and Forgiveness: On Attica Locke’s “Heaven, My Home”
On forgiveness and forgiveness betrayed in “Heaven, My Home” by Attica Locke, the sequel to her 2017 novel “Bluebird, Bluebird.”
Life in a MotherCloud: On Rob Hart’s “The Warehouse”
Nathan Jefferson reviews “The Warehouse” by Rob Hart.
Clarence Cooper Jr. Deserved Better
Nathan Jefferson reviews “The Syndicate” by Clarence Cooper Jr.
Adrift and Unmoored
Nathan Jefferson reviews “Cult X” by Fuminori Nakamura.
The Blue Line
On “Down the River Unto the Sea” by Walter Mosley.
A Quarter-Mile Long and a Century Deep
Nathan Jefferson on “Bluebird, Bluebird” by Attica Locke.
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