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    Five Books Featuring Paintings That Reveal Emotional Truths About Their Characters

    "Books that grapple with visual art tend to be grappling with these very concepts, the culmination of which is, most often, mortality itself."

    September 15, 2021  By Katie Lattari
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    Colson Whitehead on Why He Wrote a Heist Novel to Tell the Story of New York

    "I wanted to salute that moment of night and those nighthawks."

    September 14, 2021  By Dwyer Murphy
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    In Praise of the Slow-Burn Suspense of South and East Asian Thrillers

    There's a new wave of thrillers coming out of South and East Asia, and they're radically different from their Western counterparts.

    September 14, 2021  By Amanda Jayatissa
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    Julia Dahl On Turning to Fiction To Fill in the Emotional Gaps Left By Reportage

    Working as a reporter left too many unanswered questions. Dahl wanted to know the answers.

    September 14, 2021  By Julia Dahl
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    A Brief History of Giallo Fiction and the Italian Anti-Detective Novel

    Fascist censors conspired against crime novels. Readers ate them up. Then a new generation of Italian writers, influenced by Kafka, deconstructed them.

    September 13, 2021  By Guglielmo D'Izzia
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    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

    September 13, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    A Karachi Crime Reporter's Journey Through Gangland

    Zille never intended to become a crime reporter. Then he caught his first big break.

    September 13, 2021  By Samira Shackle
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    Edgar Allan Poe is The Perfect Literary Self-Help Hero For Our Uncertain Times

    Shit’s hard. Life (and writing) can be a relentless grind. But somehow, Poe kept on going—and so can you.

    September 13, 2021  By Catherine Baab-Muguira
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    How One Wildly Popular Bootleg Recording Changed the Music Industry Forever

    Inside the Wild and Wacky History of Underground Rock Recordings and the Early Days of Piracy

    September 13, 2021  By Ralph Sutherland and Harold Sherrick
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    Newport, RI Is the Perfect Place for a Murder Mystery

    New England's dreamiest coastal town deserves some fictional danger of its own

    September 10, 2021  By Alyssa Maxwell
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