• Culture

    The Lure of Objects: On the Outsized Importance of Talismans and Symbols

    "Have you ever stopped to think about how the items in books help to define our favorite characters?"

    November 4, 2021  By Heather Redmond
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    When Reality Is Too Strange To Make It Into Your Novel

    "You can't make this up": Anne Emery on the bizarre coincidences behind her latest historical mystery.

    November 4, 2021  By Anne Emery
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    10 Novels You Should Read This November

    New fiction from Alison Gaylin, William Boyle, and more.

    November 3, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    A Celebration of Sleuth-Mothers

    "Society often overlooks and even erases women caring for children...allow[ing] the sleuth-mother to observe and investigate in the shadows."

    November 3, 2021  By Raquel V. Reyes
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    Anything You Don’t See: Some Ghosts of Southern Brooklyn

    William Boyle on Brooklyn in the final days before 9-11

    November 2, 2021  By William Boyle
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    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

    November 1, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    How Crime Fiction Can Help Us Understand The Many Layers of Violence in Society

    "We’re wired for small-scale, agonistic conflict, where we feel, at a gut level, that we have agency."

    November 1, 2021  By Joy Castro
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    On Spiritualism and the Afterlife in Henry James' Turn of the Screw

    "It is the very function of ghosts to undermine confidence—for good or ill—that the dead are truly set apart."

    October 29, 2021  By Susan L. Mizruchi
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    What Makes a Psychological Thriller?

    Nicci French on the fine line that divides everyday life and the raw material of psychological thrillers.

    October 29, 2021  By Nicci French
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    Growing Up Spooky

    A fond remembrance of the ghoulish geek culture of 1960s & 70s.

    October 29, 2021  By Keith Roysdon
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