Akashic Books is releasing the latest in their "city noir" series in June, Indian Country Noir, edited by Sarah Cortez and Liz Martinez and Moscow Noir, edited by Natalia Smirnova and Julia Goumen.
The first book features a mix of authors with Indian heritage or blood and non-Indian authors, including Mistina Bates, Jean Rae Baxter, Lawrence Block, Joseph Bruchac, David Cole, Reed Farrel Coleman, O'Neil De Noux, A.A. Hedge Coke, Gerard Houarner, Liz Martinez, R. Narvaez, Kimberly Roppolo, Leonard Schonberg and Melissa Yi. The publisher invites readers to "Enter into the dark welter of troubled history throughout the Americas where the heritage of violence meets the ferocity of intent. The protagonists of these stories - whichever side of the law they're on - use their familiarity with Indian cultures to accomplish goals ranging from chilling murder to a satisfying participation in the criminal justice system."
The second anthology, Moscow Noir, features stories by a group of authors who certainly sound the part: Alexander Anuchkin, Igor Zotov, Gleb Shulpyakov, Vladimir Tuchkov, Anna Starobinets, Vyacheslav Kuritsyn, Sergei Samsonov, Alexei Evdokimov, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Maxim Maximov, Irina Denezhkina, Dmitry Kosyrev, Andrei Khusnutdinov and Sergei Kuznetsov. Even though Russia doesn't have a noir literary tradition per se, one could argue that the country's long history of suffering, oppression and conflict is the very definition of noir, with the stories in this anthology "an attempt to show its fetid womb and make sense of the desolation that reigns there."
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