- The Wire Is NOT Like Dickens from Salon
- A poster with all the main characters from The Wire on it, from co.Design
- What Stringer Bell Can Teach Us About Gangs, from The Society Pages
- An interview on Radio New Zealand with writer Dennis Lehane, who has written for The Wire.
- An Oral History Of The Wire by Aaron Cohen
- Why ‘The Wire’ Worked So Well, at Blue Milk
- The Visual Style Of The Wire, Kottke
- There is a Wire Reddit. Of course there is.
- Then there’s The Wire Wiki.
- David Simon, who wrote “The Wire”, said this [about writing female characters]. He couldn’t figure out how to do it, so he just wrote his women as though they were men, he said, and left it up to the actresses to perform their roles in ways that would make up for his inability to write for female characters. (from the comments section; no primary source link provided). While I suspect this lack of confidence on Simon’s part meant that there might have been more female characters, or at least more female characters interacting with female characters, maybe he’s onto something there. Maybe writers should just realise that women are actually the same species as men, and construct them accordingly. See: Men And Women May Be The Same Species After All.
- Louis Theroux’s documentary Law And Order In Philadelphia is kind of like the real life The Wire, set not far from where The Wire is set.
- Another real-life story from The Wire territory is the excellent and moving documentary The Boys Of Baraka, which follows the lives of a group of 13 year old boys who have been chosen to attend a school in Kenya. Part One is here
- The Gals In Blue — Bitch Media asks whether real female police officers are as well represented and respected as their fictional representations. SPOILER: No.
- Anthropology By The Wire website
- The Wire Lives On from Here and Now
- The Wire And Rational Choice Theory from The Sociological Cinema
- Rewriting The Wire So It Includes Female Characters from the late Kat Muscat
