By: Joshua Glenn

From THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE and THE BLUE LOTUS to JIREL OF JOIRY

By: Joshua Glenn

James M. Cain’s THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE

By: Joshua Glenn

From LAURA and DOUBLE INDEMNITY to RED RACKHAM’S TREASURE

By: Joshua Glenn

James M. Cain’s DOUBLE INDEMNITY

By: Joshua Glenn

21 great adventure novels of the Thirties!

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1884-93 cohort sought to make it new, to begin again.

By: Lucy Sante

“They threw me off the hay truck about noon.” The celebrated first line of The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) by JAMES M. CAIN (1892-1977) tersely illustrates his verbal and narrative economy as well as […]

By: HILOBROW

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. Click here for more HiLo Hero birthdays. JUNE 28 My heart still skips a beat when I look at old Rolling Stone […]