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The Brotherhood of Edgar Allan Poe, Shakespeare, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Brotherhood of Edgar Allan Poe, Shakespeare, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction Must Pay for Its Crimes

By Lyndsay Faye | October 13, 2026

The Golem of Circuitry: On the Power of Language and the Rise of Artificial Intelligence

The Golem of Circuitry: On the Power of Language and the Rise of Artificial Intelligence

"Since I’m currently fixated on... narratives that explore the potentiality of artificial existence, I started connecting dots between the invention of imitative life, the actual spark of divinity, and the puissance of language itself."

By Lyndsay Faye | August 22, 2025

Pastiche, Fan Fiction, and the Sincerest Form of Flattery

Pastiche, Fan Fiction, and the Sincerest Form of Flattery

If Arthur Conan Doyle could see into the future of Sherlockiana, he'd be flattered, not threatened.

By Lyndsay Faye | February 28, 2022

A Brief Introduction to Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett

A Brief Introduction to Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett

On the eternal charms of The Great Hotel Murder and its fun-loving, good-natured creator.

By Lyndsay Faye | September 2, 2020

Crime in the Time of Corona: How Genre Fiction Leads Us Through the Darkness

Crime in the Time of Corona: How Genre Fiction Leads Us Through the Darkness

In times of crisis, we turn to mystery.

By Lyndsay Faye | April 2, 2020

The Year in Sherlock Holmes

The Year in Sherlock Holmes

A Sherlockian Review of 2019

By Lyndsay Faye | January 3, 2020

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The Year in Sherlockiana

By Lyndsay Faye | January 2, 2019

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the
Evolving Sherlock Canon

By Lyndsay Faye | October 17, 2018

The Politics of Sherlock

By Lyndsay Faye | July 23, 2018

Inside a Legendary Sherlock Extravaganza

Inside a Legendary Sherlock Extravaganza

How the Baker Street Irregulars Evolve with the Times

By Lyndsay Faye | April 26, 2018