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City of Kings
Naomi Hirahara sets her latest Japantown mystery in 1903 Pasadena, well before World War II.

Lives of the Poet
Swirl & Vortex brings Larry Levis back to prominence.

Twisted Intersection
In They Kill People, Kirk Ellis writes about America’s romance with guns and violence as depicted in the film Bonnie and Clyde.

“Endings Are Seldom Pretty”
A close reading of James Sallis’s novels and the existential vision that reshaped American crime fiction.

Split Self, Split Sisters
In her daring first novel, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder, author Nina McConigley entwines race, sisterhood, and sexual violence in the American West.
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