crime fiction

Showing the Human in the Inhumane: Why Lindsay Hunter Loves True Crime

On Crime Storytelling and Why Aiming for Closure Can Be Problematic

 
By Lindsay Hunter  November 7, 2023
Authors in the Tent

Michael Connelly on His Path to the Top of the Crime Fiction World

By Authors in the Tent  July 20, 2023
The History of Literature

There Were British Spy Novels Before James Bond

By History of Literature  September 26, 2022
The Hub

Who is the real “Queen of Crime”? Agatha Christie’s estate sends a stern letter to Val McDermid.

By Jonny Diamond  August 31, 2022
Queer Lit

Notes on Queerness and Camp in Crime Fiction

By Tice Cin  October 25, 2021
Literary Criticism

Colson Whitehead: Why a Heist Novel Was the Best Way to Tell the Story of New York

By Dwyer Murphy  September 14, 2021
Otherppl

Tod Goldberg on Why We Romanticize Organized Crime

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  March 24, 2021
Literary Disco

Why We’re Watching So Much True Crime During the Pandemic

By Literary Disco  March 16, 2021
Literary Disco

Tod Goldberg on Infusing Crime Fiction with Emotion

By Literary Disco  March 3, 2021
Literary Disco

Is Crime Fiction Just Resting on Its Laurels at This Point?

By Literary Disco  February 16, 2021
Literary Disco

Will All Crime Novels Soon Be Historical Fiction?

By Literary Disco  December 11, 2020
Literary Disco

Literary Disco: Comfort Reads for Election Week (Farewell to Dystopia?)

By Literary Disco  November 3, 2020
How to...

Ian Fleming Explains How to Write a Thriller

By Emily Temple  May 28, 2019
The Hub

The Sunday Times snubs 75 years of Irish crime fiction

By Dan Sheehan  May 13, 2019
Criticism

Why We Love—and Need to Leave Behind—Dead Girl Stories

By Kristen Martin  June 27, 2018
In Memoriam

Mourning Sue Grafton

By Literary Hub  December 29, 2017
Excerpts

Robicheaux

By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 4, 2017
Feature

Adrian McKinty Tries to Get Some Writing Done in Kafka’s Old Office

By Adrian McKinty  November 21, 2017
Feature

Our Master List of Reading Lists for the Year of Trump

By Emily Temple  November 6, 2017
Craft

If a Bear Shows Up in the First Act, He Better Eat Someone in the Second

By Tom Bouman  June 27, 2017
Profile

Julia Dahl: Crime Fiction Among the Pious

By Lisa Levy  March 28, 2017
Personal Essay

Crime and the City: Visiting Amsterdam’s Dark Side

By Paul French  March 27, 2017
Q and A

Greg Iles: In Praise of Larry McMurtry (Postmodernists, Not So Much)

By Literary Hub  March 27, 2017
Q and A

Deborah Crombie: Middle Earth Over Thomas Hardy, Any Day

By Literary Hub  March 23, 2017
Personal Essay

The Wild, Weird Criminal Side of Florida

By Dwyer Murphy  March 20, 2017
Criticism

On the Genius of Daniel Woodrell, the “Battle-Hardened Bard of Meth Country”

By William Boyle  March 3, 2017
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