INTERVIEWS FICTION NON-FICTION REVIVING THE CLASSICS RECOMMENDED SITES
 21st-Century Crime is a new addition to the Crimeculture site. As this section of the site expands, it will contain a wide range of books and websites that we would like to recommend to our readers. We aim to provide reviews of: 21st-century crime fiction, re-issues of 20th-century classics, true crime, genre criticism, film criticism and crime-related websites. We want to invite writers and publishers to send us books for review, and also would be very pleased to receive recommendations of books that readers would like to see reviewed on the site. Please contact Lee Horsley.
INTERVIEWS
The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad: Crimeculture talks to Stacy Horn
'If I used that in my book nobody would believe it': Sarah Halls interviews Ian Rankin
A Quick Trip to Q-Town: Neddal Ayad interviews Jack O'Connell
Allan Guthrie interviews Jason Starr and Charlie Stella
FICTION
Reader, I Marinated Him: A Taste of Tart Noir
Lee Horsley, conference paper, Lancaster University's 'The Twenty-First Century Novel: Reading and Writing Contemporary Fiction', 2-3 September 2005
"Cold, damp, nothing zones": the mean streets of the Midlands
Reviews of: Ray Banks and John Dalton
Cities of the Damned: Literary Noir in the Twenty-First Century
Reviews of: Charlotte Carter, Jason Starr, Charlie Stella, Kevin Wignall, Charlie Williams and Allan Guthrie
Word Made Flesh and Brotherhood of Mutilation
Neddal Ayad recommends Jack O'Connell and
Brian Evenson
Italian Noir
Massimo Carlotto and Gianrico Carofiglio, reviewed by Glenn Harper
Scandinavian Noir
Karin Fossum, Åke Edwardson, Helen Tursten, Arnaldur Indridason, Liza Marklund, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, reviewed by Glenn Harper
Los Angeles
Neddal Ayad reviews Peter Moore Smith
RECOMMENDED: Neddal Ayad has guest edited the Summer 2005 issue of Hardluck Stories. The theme is "weird noir" and the issue contains some great stories: http://www.hardluckstories.com/
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NON-FICTION
The Creation, Marketing and Contexts of Hollywood Crime Films
Reviews of: Eddie Muller, The Art of Noir, Eddie Robson, Film Noir, Woody Haut, Heartbreak and Vine, Nicole Rafter, Shots in the Mirror
Past Crime: Pre-nineteenth Century Representations of Criminality
Reviews of: Gillian Spraggs, Outlaws and Highwaymen, Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz (eds), Rogues and Early Modern English Culture and Hal Gladfelder, Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England
Goodfellas and Party Monsters: Reporting from Inside the Outside
Reviews of: Nicholas Pileggi, Goodfellas; Dominic Spinale, G-Men and Gangsters, James St James, Party Monster and Frank Owen, Clubland Confidential
Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction, by Lee Horsley
Now available from Oxford University Press
REVIVING THE CLASSICS
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and the Brett Halliday tradition of comic detective novels
Lee Horsley on Hollywood and pulp traditions
Book to Film and Back: Reviving the Great Gangsters, Outlaws and Femmes Fatales
Reviews of: Armitage Trail's Scarface, Edward Anderson's Thieves Like Us and Geoffrey Homes's Build My Gallows High
Pulp Originals: the e-Publishing of Mid-Century American Crime Novels
Reviews of: Harry Whittington, James McKimmey and Day Keene
Nightmare Alley: Arthur M. Fried on Spain Hernandez’s graphic adaptation
SITES TO SEE
Internet Journal of Criminology
Site highly recommended to anyone interested in the representation of crime
Sites of Authors, Publishers and Reviewers
SUMMER SPECIAL: POSTMODERN AND FUTURE NOIR
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