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...
"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter, eh?" — Dashiell Hammett
Nathan Jefferson reviews Brooks E. Hefner’s “Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow,” an introduction to often overlooked pulp stories...
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...
Tara CheesmanAug 24, 2022
W. R. Burnett’s multifarious fiction exposed the fatal emptiness of American ambition.
Aug 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...
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...
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