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....
Jason Namey takes another look at the Coen brothers’ “The Big Lebowski” for its 25th anniversary....
Jason NameyOct 19
Philip Luke Johnson reviews Fernanda Melchor’s “This Is Not Miami.”...
Philip Luke JohnsonAug 11
Jim Ruland and Terese Svoboda talk about themes of loss, addiction, and rebellion in their latest novels, Make It Stop and Dog on Fire....
Jim Ruland, Terese SvobodaJun 16
Tara Cheesman reviews Kwei Quartey’s “Last Seen in Lapaz,” a sprawling mystery set in Accra’s underworld....
Tara CheesmanMar 21
Cody Siler writes about the search for an identifiable self in Patricia Highsmith’s novels and diaries....
Cody SilerMar 13
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....
Alex Genty-WaksbergJan 25
Chelsea Jack Fitzgerald reviews Elspeth Barker’s “O Caledonia,” a Scottish noir interested in the connections between different types of anthropogenic damage....
Chelsea FitzgeraldDec 26, 2022
Gabriel Hart reviews Woody Haut’s new novel “Skin Flick.”...
Gabriel HartDec 18, 2022
Daniel A. Olivas speaks with Gabino Iglesias about his new novel “The Devil Takes You Home.”...
Daniel A. OlivasNov 23, 2022
Jack Mearns reviews the surreal, deadpan noir of Michael Fessier’s “Fully Dressed and in His Right Mind.”...
Jack MearnsNov 17, 2022
Jason Namey reviews Dane Bahr’s “The Houseboat,” a gothic noir about a detective investigating an outcast suspected of murder in 1960s Iowa....
Jason NameyOct 13, 2022
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
Jonathan Lee talks with Dwyer Murphy about his debut, “An Honest Living.”...
Jonathan LeeSep 13, 2022
Marcus McGee contextualizes Fernanda Melchor’s “Paradais,” translated by Sophie Hughes....
Marcus McGeeAug 28, 2022
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....
Tara CheesmanAug 24, 2022
W. R. Burnett’s multifarious fiction exposed the fatal emptiness of American ambition....
Cullen GallagherAug 12, 2022
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....
Glenn HarperAug 6, 2022
Michael Nava reads Katherine V. Forrest’s “Delafield” and explains why Forrest is an icon of lesbian fiction....
Michael NavaJul 1, 2022
Katie Smith talks with Mesha Maren about the settings and authors that inspired the complicated border fatalism of “Perpetual West.”...
Katie SmithJun 17, 2022
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....
Daniel PolanskyJun 7, 2022
Christie’s classic whodunit is a brilliant parlor trick of deception and misplaced empathy....
Noah BerlatskyMay 25, 2022
Jason Namey reviews T. Jefferson Parker’s “A Thousand Steps,” a thriller set in the midst of 1968 Laguna Beach’s thriving counterculture....
Jason NameyApr 21, 2022
Naomi Elias talks to Jane Pek about her debut, “The Verifiers,” a mystery revolving around an online-dating detective agency....
Naomi EliasApr 18, 2022
Dan Magers interviews Brooks Sterritt about his debut, “The History of America in My Lifetime.”...
Dan MagersMar 26, 2022