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Every Detective Film Is a Comedy: On “The Big Lebowski” at 25
Jason Namey takes another look at the Coen brothers’ “The Big Lebowski” for its 25th anniversary....
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Lying, Archiving, Surviving: On Fernanda Melchor’s “This Is Not Miami”
Philip Luke Johnson reviews Fernanda Melchor’s “This Is Not Miami.”...
Imaginative Rebels: A Conversation Between Terese Svoboda and Jim Ruland
Jim Ruland and Terese Svoboda talk about themes of loss, addiction, and rebellion in their latest novels, Make It Stop and Dog on Fire....
Messy World, Missing Woman: On Kwei Quartey’s “Last Seen in Lapaz”
Tara Cheesman reviews Kwei Quartey’s “Last Seen in Lapaz,” a sprawling mystery set in Accra’s underworld....
Obsessions Are the Only Things That Matter: On Patricia Highsmith’s Diaries and Novels
Cody Siler writes about the search for an identifiable self in Patricia Highsmith’s novels and diaries....
Compassion After Catastrophe: On Seishi Yokomizo’s “Death on Gokumon Island”
Alex Genty-Waksberg reviews Seishi Yokomizo’s “Death on Gokumon Island,” a Japanese mystery set on an insular fishing island shortly after the end of World War II....
Noir for the Anthropocene: On Elspeth Barker’s “O Caledonia”
Chelsea Jack Fitzgerald reviews Elspeth Barker’s “O Caledonia,” a Scottish noir interested in the connections between different types of anthropogenic damage....
Wrong Choices: On Woody Haut’s “Skin Flick”
Gabriel Hart reviews Woody Haut’s new novel “Skin Flick.”...
Three Questions for Gabino Iglesias Regarding His Novel “The Devil Takes You Home”
Daniel A. Olivas speaks with Gabino Iglesias about his new novel “The Devil Takes You Home.”...
Magical Realism Meets Noir: On Michael Fessier’s “Fully Dressed and in His Right Mind”
Jack Mearns reviews the surreal, deadpan noir of Michael Fessier’s “Fully Dressed and in His Right Mind.”...
Opposites Blur Together: On Dane Bahr’s “The Houseboat”
Jason Namey reviews Dane Bahr’s “The Houseboat,” a gothic noir about a detective investigating an outcast suspected of murder in 1960s Iowa....
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....
Cosmopolitan Chaos: Dwyer Murphy on “An Honest Living”
Jonathan Lee talks with Dwyer Murphy about his debut, “An Honest Living.”...
A Beautiful and Terrible Paradise: On Fernanda Melchor’s “Paradais”
Marcus McGee contextualizes Fernanda Melchor’s “Paradais,” translated by Sophie Hughes....
Meet Melchor: On Javier Cercas’s “Even the Darkest Night”
Tara Cheesman reviews Javier Cercas’s “Even the Darkest Night,” translated by Anne McLean, in which the Spanish author introduces readers to detective Melchor Marín....
“Pretty Big Once”: W. R. Burnett’s Cynical Americana
W. R. Burnett’s multifarious fiction exposed the fatal emptiness of American ambition....
Strength of Convictions: On Dervla McTiernan’s “The Murder Rule”
Glenn Harper reviews Dervla McTiernan’s “The Murder Rule,” a legal thriller about a law student’s complicated personal ties with a project that’s working to overturn a convicted murderer’s death sentence....
The Price You Pay: Of Crimes and Closets
Michael Nava reads Katherine V. Forrest’s “Delafield” and explains why Forrest is an icon of lesbian fiction....
It’s Just a River Rivering: A Conversation with Mesha Maren
Katie Smith talks with Mesha Maren about the settings and authors that inspired the complicated border fatalism of “Perpetual West.”...
The Forgotten Noir Detective
Daniel Polansky reviews “Me, Detective,” Leslie T. White’s memoir of his experiences in the LAPD that served as inspiration for Raymond Chandler’s Marlowe....
Getting Fooled Again: Rereading Agatha Christie’s “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” in the Age of Trump
Christie’s classic whodunit is a brilliant parlor trick of deception and misplaced empathy....
Once Upon a Time in Laguna Beach
Jason Namey reviews T. Jefferson Parker’s “A Thousand Steps,” a thriller set in the midst of 1968 Laguna Beach’s thriving counterculture....
Data-Driven: A Conversation with Jane Pek
Naomi Elias talks to Jane Pek about her debut, “The Verifiers,” a mystery revolving around an online-dating detective agency....
The State of Paranoia: An Interview with Brooks Sterritt
Dan Magers interviews Brooks Sterritt about his debut, “The History of America in My Lifetime.”...
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