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Christina Kovac on POV, Postgrad Characters, and Writing Gripping Psychological Thrillers

Christina Kovac on POV, Postgrad Characters, and Writing Gripping Psychological Thrillers

Radha Vatsal in conversation with the author of "Watch Us Fall"

By Radha Vatsal | January 7, 2026

A Walking Tour of Manhattan's Chinatown and Turn-of-the-Century New York City

A Walking Tour of Manhattan's Chinatown and Turn-of-the-Century New York City

"Then, as now, in New York City, real estate is everything."

By Radha Vatsal | March 5, 2025

I Rewatched <em>Foyle's War</em>. The Last Two Seasons Are Shockingly Bleak.

I Rewatched Foyle's War. The Last Two Seasons Are Shockingly Bleak.

How did Foyle's War go from being a show about a local village's wartime effort to a show about big-city post-war existentialism?

By Radha Vatsal | January 10, 2022

It's Time for More Period Dramas to Embrace the Diversity of People of Color

It's Time for More Period Dramas to Embrace the Diversity of People of Color

Un-Whitewashing the Past

By Radha Vatsal | July 27, 2020

Finally, A New Children's Book About Agatha Christie

Finally, A New Children's Book About Agatha Christie

An exciting find in a children's book landscape that rarely celebrates the heroines of genre fiction.

By Radha Vatsal | July 10, 2020

100 Years Ago, the World's Biggest Action Star Was a Woman Named Pearl

100 Years Ago, the World's Biggest Action Star Was a Woman Named Pearl

The forgotten history of "Fearless Peerless Pearl" and the brief heyday of silent movie action heroines.

By Radha Vatsal | February 12, 2020

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Wilkie Collins and the Prison of Marriage

By Radha Vatsal | December 4, 2019

Miss Sherlock is the Smartest, Most Intuitive Sherlock Holmes Adaptation We've Seen in a While

By Radha Vatsal | November 7, 2019

Celebrating Hitchcock's Most Iconic Shots

By Radha Vatsal | August 28, 2019

Searching for Crime Fiction in Mumbai's Beloved English-Language Bookstore

Searching for Crime Fiction in Mumbai's Beloved English-Language Bookstore

Bookstore Dispatch: Kitab Khana, Mumbai

By Radha Vatsal | August 8, 2019

Agatha Christie and the Case of the Unwieldy Adaptation

Agatha Christie and the Case of the Unwieldy Adaptation

Christie knew when to stop writing a detective novel. Today's flashy adaptations over-embellish the source material.

By Radha Vatsal | June 6, 2019

Why Does It Matter Who Wrote Nancy Drew, Anyway?

Why Does It Matter Who Wrote Nancy Drew, Anyway?

Author as Brand: The Syndicate Behind So Many Classic Series

By Radha Vatsal | March 7, 2019

Why Spiral Doesn't Deserve To Be Compared to The Wire

Why Spiral Doesn't Deserve To Be Compared to The Wire

On the Casual Racism and Muddled Politics of the French Crime TV Hit

By Radha Vatsal | January 25, 2019

What We Owe to Wilkie Collins' <em>The Woman In White</em>

What We Owe to Wilkie Collins' The Woman In White

On The 19th Century Origins of the Modern Psychological Thriller

By Radha Vatsal | November 12, 2018

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