Toxic Masculinity and the Hard-Boiled Crime Novel: Dorothy B. Hughes’ In a Lonely Place

It's impossible not to think about the MeToo Movement, toxic masculinity, and how our culture seems to be (or at least starting to) reckon with the misogynistic aspects of many social structures while reading Dorothy B. Hughes' novel In a Lonely Place. It's also impossible to deny that it's a masterful hard-boiled novel seething with …