This is FRESH AIR. Novelist Francis Spufford's latest work of alternative historical fiction is called "Cahokia Jazz." It's a hard-boiled detective novel that imagines an America where Native ...

Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade talking to another man in the final scene of The Maltese Falcon (1941). Image via Warner Bros. The detective noir serves as the heart and soul of the classic film noir ...

Film noir produced many timeless classics, but review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes ranks Double Indemnity and Laura among the ...

With the classic noir flick The Maltese Falcon screening at the Esquire this weekend for Midnight Madness, we’ve been thinking a lot about our favorite noir films, from the classic era to the modern.

This dark, panoramic thriller set in post-World War I New Orleans appears to have been inspired stylistically by the films that author Nathaniel Rich examined in his 2005 study, “San Francisco Noir.” ...

The detective noir serves as the heart and soul of the classic film noir genre, which was initially generated from the pivotal rise of hardboiled crime novels and pulp fiction during the 1930s. Iconic ...