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 ...

Zócalo Public Square is a magazine of ideas from Arizona State University Knowledge Enterprise. Cheap paperback books are like sex: They claim attention, elicit memories good and bad, and get talked ...

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 ...

In the second of historian Jess Nevins’ series on science fiction pulps, he takes us through the Golden Age of science fiction, from the late 1930s through the “last efflorescence of the pulps” in the ...

Ask most people what “pulp fiction” is and the likely reply would be that it’s a movie about two hit men played by Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta. While that is essentially correct, it’s also ...

San Francisco artist Katie Gilmartin stumbled into the 1950s pulp novel world of babes, guns and murder via an unlikely avenue — researching her master’s thesis in lesbian history. For many of the ...

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Cheap paperback books are like sex: They claim attention, elicit memories good and bad, and get talked about endlessly. The mid-20th century was the era of pulp, which landed in America in 1939. You ...