Paolo Bacilieri, the artist behind the poster for the 2022 Noir in Festival, presented his new graphic novel, Venere Privata, based on Scerbanenco’s first novel featuring Duca Lamberti. The poster was a commission he couldn’t refuse. Article by Ariel Conta

At the Rizzoli Bookshop, Gianfranco Giagni, curator of the Italian edition, and filmmaker Davide Ferrario talk about The Unthinking Lobster, aka Miracolo a Hollywood, a play by Orson Welles. Article by Vittoria Villa

On the day Italy’s highest honor for lifetime achievement by a master of the literary thriller and noir genre, the Raymond Chandler Award, goes to Harlan Coben, the Festival has released the statement

Photo by Aldo Umicini Davide Rapp and Michele Boroni re-evoke a heady season: the 1992 Noir in Festival and the revelation of Tarantino and his Reservoir Dogs in competition that year. The evening event this year celebrated that edition and ended with a message for Noir from the filmmaker, now firmly installed in the movie hall of fame. An article by Vittoria Villa

Noir in Festival Raymond Chandler Award Recipient 2022. Article by Adrian Wootton

Marina Fabbri interviews the author of The Long Knives, who shot to worldwide fame in 1993 for his novel Trainspotting. And, as happened with his 2008 novel Crime, the investigations of detective Ray Lennox will once again become a television miniseries