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    How One Author Forced Himself to Reconsider Expectations About Violence in Fiction

    Michael Landweber wanted to write a book where violence was absent in all the places we most expected it.

    March 21, 2022  By Michael Landweber
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    March's Best International Crime Books

    Argentine forgers, Korean assassins, and French witches

    March 18, 2022  By Molly Odintz
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    The Bizarre, Self-Incriminating Confession of Pam Hupp

    On a strange incident in the true story that forms the basis for the show The Thing About Pam.

    March 18, 2022  By Charles Bosworth Jr. and Joel J. Schwartz
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    People Have Always Told Me Their Secrets. That's Why I Became A Private Investigator.

    Erika Krouse on having the kind of face that spurs others to reveal their fears, anxieties, and darkest revelations.

    March 18, 2022  By Erika Krouse
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    Is “The Counselor” Cormac McCarthy’s Overlooked Masterpiece?

    The 2013 noir was a mostly derided flop. But what if it's actually one of McCarthy's more brilliant works?

    March 18, 2022  By Nick Kolakowski
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    Six Narrators with Unusual Perspectives

    An unborn child, an old badger, an intelligent mannequin, and other unfamiliar viewpoints in fiction.

    March 18, 2022  By Silje Ulstein
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    None of Us Will See Heaven: The Eight Best Irish-American Mob Films of All Time

    Is there any scene of screen violence that wouldn't be better if 'Danny Boy' were playing on a gramophone in the background?

    March 17, 2022  By Zack Budryk
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    What We Can Learn From The Darkest Period in Art History

    "Between 1933 – 1945, the Third Reich confiscated, destroyed, and plundered upwards of 650,000 works of art."

    March 17, 2022  By Lisa Barr
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    What Classic Mystery Author You Should Read, Based On Your Zodiac Sign

    Agatha Christie is for Libras, and other thoughts on crime fiction and astrology.

    March 16, 2022  By Daisy Bateman
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    The Two Camps of Crime: Christie’s Cool, Cozy Tales of Ratiocination and Highsmith’s Psycho-Sexual Deep Waters

    Wayne Johnson traces the lineage of modern crime fiction.

    March 16, 2022  By Wayne Johnson
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