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"A good private-eye novel . . . is not really about violence; it's about the fallibility of people, about the grotesqueries of modern life, and not least it is about one man, the detective, who defines the moral order." This statement, from Washington Po...

Equal Opportunity 1. Bounty Supermarket was on Venice Boulevard, miles and miles from Socrates' home. He gaped at the glittering palace as he strode across the hot asphalt parking lot. The front wall was made from immense glass panes with steel...

Walter Mosley's new book, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, may be the beginning of his new direction into serious fiction. Many contend that he could have written a sixth detective novel, but in his new fiction book, he has stayed fictionally and socially conscious. The...

In the following review, Curwen observes that the unifying themes of the short stories in Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned are how the concept of invisibility and blues music relate to the modern African American experience.