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
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Crime Fiction Is Complicit in Police Violence—But It’s Not Too Late to Change
Novels have been selling us the myth that crimes are mysteries and cops are here to protect us
Jul 17 2020 - Aya de León
There Is No Greater Cosmic Crime Than Devaluing a Woman’s Intelligence
Asa Yoneda on translating the strangeness of Yukiko Motoya’s ‘The Lonesome Bodybuilder’
Nov 7 2018 - Lily Meyer
Reading True Crime Memoir Helped Me Lay Claim to My Own Traumatic Story
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
Jun 20 2018 - Alice Lesperance
7 Crime Novels Written by Irish Women
Olivia Kiernan, author of ‘Too Close To Breathe,’ on Irish women writing emerald noir
Apr 17 2018 - Olivia Kiernan
10 LGBTQ Crime Fiction Must-Reads
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’
Mar 5 2018 - John Copenhaver
Where Crime Fiction Meets the Talmud
Tod Goldberg’s gangster-turned-rabbi series is the madcap spiritual noir you didn’t know you were looking for
Sep 19 2017 - Heather Scott Partington
“Crime of the Ancient Mariner” by Brian Lance, with Illustrations by Christina Sun
The Mariner describes lifelong feelings of dysphoria, and fascination with suicide and depression.
Jan 23 2017 - Brian Lance and Christina Sun
Maggie Nelson’s The Red Parts Bends The True Crime Model Until It Breaks
"The Red Parts" is a meditation on life and death that’s part true crime, part memoir
Apr 21 2016 - Nathan Scott McNamara
7 City Novels in Which Real Estate and Urban Planning Are the Heroes and Villains
Stories about individuals facing change as they are torn between past and future, tradition and modernization
