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GLENN HARPER

Glenn Harper is the former editor of Sculpture magazine and reviews crime fiction at internationalnoir.blogspot.com.
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The Shape of Life: On James Sallis’s “Sarah Jane”

The Shape of Life: On James Sallis’s “Sarah Jane”

Glenn Harper reviews “Sarah Jane” by James Sallis.

Other Scripts Within the Story: On Sean Carswell’s “Dead Extra”

Other Scripts Within the Story: On Sean Carswell’s “Dead Extra”

Glenn Harper reviews “Dead Extra” by Sean Carswell.

The Deified Totality of the True: On Ben H. Winters’s “Golden State”

The Deified Totality of the True: On Ben H. Winters’s “Golden State”

Glenn Harper reviews “Golden State” by Ben H. Winters.

Meaning to Chaos

Meaning to Chaos

On “The Cold Summer” by Gianrico Carofiglio.

The Hard-Boiled and the Mundane

The Hard-Boiled and the Mundane

On “Signal Loss” and the works of Garry Disher.

“People Like Us”: On Parker Bilal’s Makana Mysteries

“People Like Us”: On Parker Bilal’s Makana Mysteries

Glenn Harper looks at the Makana Mysteries by Parker Bilal.

Macho-Centric: Denise Mina Takes on Classic Noir

Macho-Centric: Denise Mina Takes on Classic Noir

Glenn Harper reviews “The Long Drop” by Denise Mina.

Despair and Hope: Jassy Mackenzie’s South African Noir

Despair and Hope: Jassy Mackenzie’s South African Noir

Glenn Harper reviews the new book in Jassy Mackenzie’s Jade de Jong series.

Pancakes and Pea Soup

Pancakes and Pea Soup

Glenn Harper on Helene Tursten's "Who Watcheth."

A Forensic Thousand-and-One Nights

A Forensic Thousand-and-One Nights

Glenn Harper reviews “The Trespasser” by Tana French.

Melancholy Danes

Melancholy Danes

IN 2011, two works of noir fiction from Denmark arrived in English-speaking countries with a resonance beyond the usual crime story’

An Operational Advantage

An Operational Advantage

Glenn Harper reviews "Real Tigers."

A Spanish Saga

A Spanish Saga

ARTURO PÉREZ-REVERTE has invoked two precedents for his brand of historical fiction: Alexandre Dumas and Stendhal. In some of Pé

The Devil’s Merry-Go-Round of Cape Town Noir

The Devil’s Merry-Go-Round of Cape Town Noir

In the past 15 years there has been a blossoming of noir in South African literature — see Deon Meyer and Margie Orford.

The Bleak World of Italian Noir

The Bleak World of Italian Noir

IF YOU LOOK for noir in an Italian bookstore, you’ll find it under the heading “gialli,” which means “yellows,” because

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