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The Noir Quarterly
Investigative magazine noir. High contrast, dense long-form.
marrowgate
The Harbourside Ledger: Four Acres and a Vanished Hearing
Four acres of working waterfront, a rezoning vote nobody can document and a contingency that grew nearly ninefold. A fictional long read on how a city misplaces what it would rather not explain.
editors-note
A Note on Method: What We Print and What We Hold
The editor explains the rules behind every investigation in this quarterly: how many sources, how much time to reply, when a story waits, and what we do when we are wrong.
sources
The Draftsman Who Would Not Be Named
He met us in a laundromat on a wet Thursday and brought plans nobody was meant to see. What we promised him, what we refused to promise, and why you will never read his name.
budgets
Reading a Budget Line Like a Suspect
One line in a city budget can tell you more than the speech that introduced it. How we read a single row of a fictional budget, and what the dull columns give away.
records-requests
Wording a Records Request Nobody Can Dodge
A records request is one sentence you write once and are judged by for weeks. Here is how we word ours so that 'no responsive documents' stops being an easy answer.
marrowgate
Eleven Pages Missing From the March Minutes
The Marrowgate Planning Board voted on the Harbourside rezoning in March. The minutes of that night jump from page 41 to page 52, and nobody at City Hall can say where the rest went.