Nathan Jefferson

Nathan Jefferson is the noir editor at Los Angeles Review of Books.

Hail, Caesar
Friends, Romans, countrymen: Nathan Jefferson lends his ears (and eyes) to the immersive “Julius Caesar” production at Heritage Square Museum.
Nathan JeffersonMay 8
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.
Nathan JeffersonOct 6, 2022
- Literary Criticism
- Noir
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.”
Nathan JeffersonOct 31, 2019
- Noir
Life in a MotherCloud: On Rob Hart’s “The Warehouse”
Nathan Jefferson reviews “The Warehouse” by Rob Hart.
Nathan JeffersonSep 27, 2019
- Noir
Clarence Cooper Jr. Deserved Better
Nathan Jefferson reviews “The Syndicate” by Clarence Cooper Jr.
Nathan JeffersonDec 10, 2018
- Noir
Adrift and Unmoored
Nathan Jefferson reviews “Cult X” by Fuminori Nakamura.
Nathan JeffersonAug 27, 2018
- Around the World
- Noir
The Blue Line
On “Down the River Unto the Sea” by Walter Mosley.
Nathan JeffersonMar 28, 2018
- Noir
A Quarter-Mile Long and a Century Deep
Nathan Jefferson on “Bluebird, Bluebird” by Attica Locke.
Nathan JeffersonOct 29, 2017
- Noir