By: Joshua Glenn

From A FAREWELL TO ARMS to THE DAIN CURSE and LITTLE CAESAR

By: Joshua Glenn

Dashiell Hammett’s THE DAIN CURSE

By: Joshua Glenn

From LOST HORIZON and THE THIN MAN to THE WEREWOLF OF PARIS

By: Joshua Glenn

Dashiell Hammett’s THE THIN MAN

By: Joshua Glenn

From BRAVE NEW WORLD and MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY to ZOTHIQUE

By: Joshua Glenn

From RED HARVEST and GERFALCON to WITCH WOOD

By: Joshua Glenn

Dashiell Hammett’s RED HARVEST

By: Joshua Glenn

From SWALLOWDALE to THE GLASS KEY to THE FACE IN THE ABYSS.

By: Joshua Glenn

A hard-boiled love story in which nobody can be trusted.

By: Joshua Glenn

From THE MALTESE FALCON to DESTRY RIDES AGAIN

By: Joshua Glenn

21 great adventure novels from 1924–33!

By: Joshua Glenn

Crime writer Robert B. Parker is dead. HiLobrow.com contributor Sarah Weinman, who writes “Dark Passages,” a monthly online mystery & suspense column for the Los Angeles Times, and “The Criminalist”, a monthly online column for […]

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1894-1903 cohort are bitterly resigned to unfreedom.

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Witty and brutal, poetic and blunt.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. Click here for more HiLo Hero birthdays. MAY 24 I know it’s a bold claim, but JOSEPH BRODSKY (1940-96) just might be […]