The Ineluctable Agon of Desire: Joyce Carol Oates’s Suspense Fiction
The prolific author has produced, sometimes under pseudonyms, a rich harvest of taut, stylish thrillers....
The Ineluctable Agon of Desire: Joyce Carol Oates’s Suspense Fiction
The prolific author has produced, sometimes under pseudonyms, a rich harvest of taut, stylish thrillers....
Who Chopped Off the Priest’s Nob?
Randy Rosenthal reviews “Snow,” John Banville’s first mystery novel under his own name....
Deaths of Despair: On Hye-young Pyun’s “The Law of Lines”
Tara Cheesman reviews Hye-young Pyun’s “The Law of Lines.”...
Closeness and Cruelty: On Tana French’s “The Searcher”
Glenn Harper hunts down “The Searcher,” the latest thriller from Tana French....
Bradbury Noir: The Crimes of a Science Fiction Master
Cullen Gallagher investigates “Killer, Come Back to Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury.”...
Psychopathic High Strangeness: On Jeremy Robert Johnson’s “The Loop”
Matt E. Lewis reviews “The Loop” by Jeremy Robert Johnson....
Ghostly Presences in Addis Ababa: A Conversation with Maaza Mengiste
An interview with Maaza Mengiste, editor of “Addis Ababa Noir.”...
We Don’t Know Anything: On “Growing Things” and the Paul Tremblay Mythos
Gabino Iglesias reviews “Growing Things,” the recently published collection of short stories by Paul Tremblay....
The Magic of Plot and Catharsis: A Conversation with Smith Henderson and Jon Marc Smith
Ivy Pochoda interviews writers Smith Henderson and Jon Marc Smith about their novel, “Make Them Cry.”...
Contamination: On Qiu Xiaolong’s Inspector Chen Mysteries
Alex L. Wang investigates the Inspector Chen series by Qiu Xiaolong....
Murder in Kuala Lumpur
Collin Mitchell reviews “21 Immortals: Inspector Mislan and the Yee Sang Murders” by Rozlan Mohd Noor....
An Obscure Road to Hollywood
A republication of Philippe Garnier’s 1996 book on screenwriters in 1930s Hollywood....