Threaded through the narrative is a powerfully posed question: what are our responsibilities as members of a community?

The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s.

With a past that reads like noir fiction and architecture that looks like a movie set, Hot Springs, Arkansas, is hard to ...

On the 30th anniversary of 'Pulp Fiction,' 20 creatives including John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson break down the making ...

Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising new titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider in November.

Imagine ‘40s fashions, stark lighting, shadow-play, fog, fedoras, fistfights, physical comedy, femmes fatales, torch songs, desperation, dance, and dozens of puns: Happenstance Theater’s CABARET NOIR ...

Poolman ( now streaming on Hulu) is the passion project of Chris Pine, who directs, co-writes (with Ian Gotler) and stars in ...

If a picture speaks a thousand words, then the concluding episode of Disclaimer makes it clear that those words might not ...

It has proven particularly difficult to write fiction in English about the present. Indeed, arguably the best writing in ...

It’s the end of the world, and you’re not too happy about it, so you’ll be shoving children in a time machine with little ...

When Frank Wynne’s translation of Michel Houellebecq’s 1998 novel Atomised was published, in 2000, a reader complained to ...

Far less common are Hanukkah stories, such as those collected by Tod Goldberg in Eight Very Bad Nights: A Collection of ...