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Olivia Rutigliano
Olivia Rutigliano is the Associate Editor of LitHub's CrimeReads vertical and the Senior Film Writer at LitHub. In addition to Lit Hub, CrimeReads, and Book Marks, her work appears in Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham's Quarterly, Public Books, The Baffler, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Politics/Letters, The Toast, Truly Adventurous, PBS Television, and elsewhere. She is a PhD candidate and the Marion E. Ponsford fellow in the departments of English/comparative literature and theatre at Columbia University, where she specializes in nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature and entertainment.
Motherless Brooklyn Is About the Mystery of Self-Expression—Adapting It Was Never Going to Be Easy
A postmodern '90s novel becomes a '50s noir.
The Real Dracula Is a Detective Story—and an Incredibly Complex, Fascinating Mystery
Forget what you think you know about the ur-vampire story. Bram Stoker's masterpiece was a sprawling, radical detective novel.
50 Years Ago, Scooby Doo Was the Perfect, Weird, Hopeful Mystery Series 1969 Needed
An unlikely gang of mystery-solvers set out to change the world.
The Best 1990s Rom-Coms Are Detective Stories in Disguise
Because what is love if not a complete mystery?
Lisa Lutz on Creating Iconic Female Protagonists
"When I write women I’m thinking about what I want to put out in the universe."
Remembering the Gilded Age's Long-Lost Lady Detectives
In an era which restricted women's advancement, a handful of women beat the odds and became investigators.
Ready or Not is a Bloody Good Time at the Movies
How Ready or Not marries traditional mystery tropes to feminist horror to tell a story of old money gone awry.
Why Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is a Child's-Eye View of the 1960s
The film reads 60s counterculture as attacking the entertainment beloved by the era's children—and thus attacking childhood itself.
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