
John Darnielle Subverts the True Crime Genre in His New Novel “Devil House”
The songwriter behind The Mountain Goats on turning real-life people into characters and the consequences of storytelling
The songwriter behind The Mountain Goats on turning real-life people into characters and the consequences of storytelling
Novels have been selling us the myth that crimes are mysteries and cops are here to protect us
Asa Yoneda on translating the strangeness of Yukiko Motoya’s ‘The Lonesome Bodybuilder’
Piper Weiss’s “You All Grow Up and Leave Me” tells a crime story from the perspective of a bystander, and showed me how I could do the same
Olivia Kiernan, author of ‘Too Close To Breathe,’ on Irish women writing emerald noir
There are similarities between the arc of the crime narrative and the coming out narrative, says John Copenhaver, author of the new novel ‘Dodging and Burning’
Tod Goldberg’s gangster-turned-rabbi series is the madcap spiritual noir you didn’t know you were looking for
The Mariner describes lifelong feelings of dysphoria, and fascination with suicide and depression.
"The Red Parts" is a meditation on life and death that’s part true crime, part memoir
Stories about individuals facing change as they are torn between past and future, tradition and modernization