Hardboiled, with heart: two tough-guy crime novels add a social conscience to the violence and mayhem
Sam Wiebe and S.A. Cosby are among the leading practitioners of a new strain of noir fiction.
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Sam Wiebe and S.A. Cosby are among the leading practitioners of a new strain of noir fiction.
As with any anthology of this kind, not all entries work equally well.
Chiusano's portrait of a younger Santos is of someone painfully insecure, thin skinned, and desperate for some kind of validation and acceptance.
The three pieces represent a triptych of horror tales that examine the various ways lack of personal connection can eat away at a person.
Brainwyrms is all about the horrors of transphobia
The Wild Iris won the Pulitzer Prize; the 2014 collection Faithful and Virtuous Night won the National Book Award.
Bringing these stories together in one place highlights the genre contributions of Black writers.
"Fosse blends a rootedness in the language and nature of his Norwegian background with artistic techniques in the wake of modernism."
Reading Koja's novel in 1991 was a revelation, as well as a reminder that horror is able to deal with large themes and philosophically weighty subject matter.
Wolff is not interested in a sober analysis of Fox News and its pernicious effect on the American polity.