Nathan Jefferson

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

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
- 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
- Noir
- Translation
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
The Buick Roadmaster: Motion, Agency, and Defeat in “If He Hollers Let Him Go”
Nathan Jefferson on “If He Hollers Let Him Go” by Chester Himes....
Nathan JeffersonOct 5, 2016
- Noir