“Dead Man’s Wire: The Justice of the Spectacle” by Efe Teksoy

REVIEW: “The silence, however, is theirs alone — something neither the camera nor the system could ever claim….”

“Hope Diamond” by Charles Rammelkamp

POETRY: “Richie died before she got out, / but he’d have been proud, five years / after Beldini went to prison….”

“Desire Goes Off the Rails: Youssef Chahine’s Cairo Station (1958, Egypt)” by Anees Aref

REVIEW ESSAY: “Demonstrates noir’s appeal, regardless of the time or place of origin….”

Howard A. Rodman Book Tour: 5/19-7/19

BLOGS: “The screenwriter and author of Destiny Express and The Great Eastern to visit several cities….”

“The Endearing and the Enduring: On The Companion Guide to The Godfather Trilogy” by William Blick

BOOK REVIEW: “An incisive look at the films through the lens of a scholar, critic, and fan….”

“Nearing Woods Hole: From Silver Moon Rising” by A. M. Potter

NOVEL EXCERPT: “His heart skipped a beat. He plunged headfirst into Vineyard Sound like a diving bird….”

RFO Editor Matthew Sorrento in Conversation with Novelist Jacinda Townsend, 4/3/26, Inkwood Books, Haddonfield

BLOGS: “She’d gotten no trigger warning. And her entire life, she wanted to scream now, had deserved a trigger warning. Searing, surprisingly witty, and deeply human, Trigger Warning is a novel about the durational aftermath of anti-Black police violence.”

“On the Mean Streets of Tulsa: FX’s The Lowdown” by Anees Aref

REVIEW: “Lee Raybon calls himself a “truth storian” [p]layed by Ethan Hawke as a cross between Hunter S. Thompson and Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe….”