Anthologies

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“Make sure you ask someone whether they’ve even heard of Sallis, Knight, or Ellison before you gift-wrap this massive block of pages. It’s an acquired taste.”

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“While those with a preference for straightforward, gritty noir may be thrown off by these otherworldly curveballs, others who enjoy cross-cultural context mixed in with the shadows will fi

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“Unlike your cousin’s famous and always mushy kugel recipe, this book’s tasty enough to keep reheating—that is, re-reading.”

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“’It’s hardly surprising that crime fiction, with its insistence upon one inarguable ending and a landscape in which the guilty are punished and the innocent freed to continue with their li

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What makes Keegan’s writing so rich is her economy of words and her ability to create vivid and powerful scenes while maintaining a simple style.”

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“The tales that populate Cleveland Noir are essentially about the haves, the have-nots, and the never-wills.”

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Denver Noir is a fascinating exploration of this sunny city’s dark side.”

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Liberation Day is inventive, provocative, difficult, interesting, and annoying.

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“quick glimpses into different lives”

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The ostensible template for these 24 musings on “singlehood” is Helen Gurley Brown’s 1962 cult classic, Sex and the Single Girl.

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“Midnight Hour operates from a stimulating conceit: an anthology of 20 crime stories, all taking place at midnight, all written by writers of color.”

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“These tales are presented as humorous, but it’s a humor that hides a piercing sorrow at the state of the world and the costs of love and friendship in such a world.”

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Accessible, challenging, and fun by turns, Speculative Los Angeles possesses everything a fan could want.”

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Every year, there is a pilgrimage (of sorts).

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“Mengiste and Akashic have done us a service by putting together this intriguing collection.”

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“Carlaftes’s compendium is a hysterical and delightful excursion into the American presidency from the time Andrew Jackson dove into the River Styx to avoid the Grim Reaper until President

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The thing about a smorgasbord is that you don’t need to savor every offering to feel happily fed.

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If you’ve ever flown, then you’ll know the fear that can sometimes come with the experience; the unexpected turbulence, unforeseen weather events, the vertigo, the constant possibility that somethi

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Zagreb Noir, edited by Ivan Sršen, is yet another international addition to the long-running Akashic Noir series.

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Falling in Love with Hominids opens with the confession, “I didn’t used to like people much.” Author Nalo Hopkinson acknowledges that as a teen she did not have much hope for the human spe

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“. . . an excellent book for those interested in the journalism greats, both past and reasonably contemporary. It should be required reading for journalism majors.”

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“. . . a writer to be admired and enjoyed. . . . But those searching for a compelling plotline played out by psychologically complex characters best look elsewhere.”

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