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Oscar Wilde’s Poems in Prose with Dark Jazz Background: Beauty, Judgment and the Sound of the Inner Night

Beauty, Judgment and the Sound of the Inner Night In 1894, Oscar Wilde published six brief texts…

Bukowski

Existential Noir and the Inner Night of Modern Literature

Existential Noir   Article There is a form of noir that begins after the crime. After the …

climate of suspicion

Patricia Highsmith and the Climate of Suspicion

Patricia Highsmith and the Climate of Suspicion Patricia Highsmith transformed noir through sus…

Dark Aesthetics

Dark Jazz Radio: Building a World of Noir, Sound, and Shadow

Dark Jazz Radio is more than a site about music, film, and books. It is a growing world of noi…

crime fiction

Latin American Noir: Cities, Writers, and the Dark Imagination of a Continent

A guide to Latin American noir through its essential cities, writers, and dark traditions, f…

crime fiction

Latin American Noir Beyond Argentina and Brazil: Essential Writers, Directors, and Dark Cities

Latin American Noir A guide to Latin American noir beyond Argentina and Brazil, through the es…

british noir

Tartan Noir: The Scottish Tradition of Rain, Violence, and Class Shadows

Tartan Noir  Tartan noir does not arrive with elegance. It arrives wet, bruised, and angry. I…

Dashiell Hammett

The Black Bird and the Empty Soul: Why The Maltese Falcon Still Feels Dangerous

The Maltese Falcon is not simply a detective story. It is a noir novel about appetite, p…