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 JEFFERSON

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 JEFFERSON

NOIR

Life in a MotherCloud: On Rob Hart’s “The Warehouse”

Nathan Jefferson reviews “The Warehouse” by Rob Hart....

NATHAN JEFFERSON

NOIR