Pulp fiction has always been a male-dominated genre, the realm of the tough-guy writer, from Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler to more modern, “neo-noir” practitioners like Walter Mosley or James ...

Hard Case Crime. 220 pp. Paperback, $6.99 Starting with "Satan Is a Woman" in 1951, Gil Brewer (1922-83) published more than 40 novels under his own name and others. Often sporting provocative titles ...

A movie like The Meg feels a bit strange after two decades of Mega-, Mecha-, -topus and -nado kitsch bludgeoning our senses, because, despite the bombast inherent in "Jason Statham fights a giant ...

“It’s like I got glass in my brain,” Lionel Essrog (Edward Norton) laments in Motherless Brooklyn, more than once. What he has is some form of Tourettes — a neurological disorder that makes him yelp ...