• Culture

    ‘A Face in the Crowd’ Forecast Our Future – If We’d Only Been Paying Attention

    Keith Roysdon on the strange prescience of Elia Kazan's 1957 film starring Andy Griffith.

    September 15, 2023  By Keith Roysdon
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    The Dark Humor of Millennial Crime Capers

    30-somethings can laugh in the face of anything—including death.

    September 14, 2023  By Alice Bell
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    When is a Character’s Dishonesty Justified?

    "[W]hen is it ethical...for characters to do a great right, by doing a little wrong?"

    September 14, 2023  By R. J. Jacobs
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    Writing a Domestic Survival Thriller

    On Marrying Life-or-Death Stakes with the Trials of Suburbia

    September 13, 2023  By Lee Kelly
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    On Crime and Its Discontents

    "Every crime is a breach and a break and a sundering. It splits time. It shatters the ethical axis. But it reveals hidden things in a culture, or a nation."

    September 12, 2023  By Ben Okri
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    When True Crime Meets Police Brutality

    True-crime accounts of someone killed by police shouldn’t be any different from other murder investigations, but they are.

    September 12, 2023  By Justine Barron
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    The Girl and the Faun: Eden Phillpotts, His Crime Fiction and His Strange Relationship with His Daughter Adelaide

    The prolific and long-lived Phillpotts was Agatha Christie's neighbor and early reader. He was also a monster.

    September 11, 2023  By Curtis Evans
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    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

    New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    September 11, 2023  By CrimeReads 
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    The Gilded Age: On Invention and Excess

    Alyssa Maxwell on capturing the technologies of an unequal and rapidly changing era in historical fiction.

    September 11, 2023  By Alyssa Maxwell
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    James Ellroy Reveals the Real Reason He Writes

    "Disingenuousness is a sin. I’m writing this essay in the spirit of atonement. My ongoing biography should be revised to reflect this..."

    September 7, 2023  By James Ellroy
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