On Discord, Shared Guilt, and The Power of Collective Narration

On Discord, Shared Guilt, and The Power of Collective Narration

A chorus of narrators doesn't just include the reader in the action—it implicates them.

By Lauren Oliver | September 5, 2025

Writing Queer Icons into Crime

Writing Queer Icons into Crime

A Roundtable Discussion with the Contributors to the new anthology, "Crime Ink: Iconic"

By John Copenhaver | September 4, 2025

<em>Wake Up Dead Man</em>, AKA <em>Knives Out 3</em>, is getting a theatrical release!

Wake Up Dead Man, AKA Knives Out 3, is getting a theatrical release!

Everybody! Flood the theaters! Let's see this thing on the big screen!

By Olivia Rutigliano | September 3, 2025

Leigh Stein: Why I Wrote a Mystery without a Murder

Leigh Stein: Why I Wrote a Mystery without a Murder

"What if instead I wrote a gothic novel that explored another existential threat to women—the fear of aging and irrelevance?"

By Leigh Stein | September 3, 2025

The Future of Technology Makes It Harder to Solve Fictional Crimes

The Future of Technology Makes It Harder to Solve Fictional Crimes

We thought more cameras, more data, and more computing power would mean more answers at the crime scene. What if they just raise more questions?

By Thomas R. Weaver | September 3, 2025

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

By CrimeReads | September 2, 2025

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  • Exit Party
  • Fallow
  • Our Noble Selves
  • Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
  • The Newer World
  • End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
  • Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
  • Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era
  • Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
  • The Rouse

New Crime Series to Stream During This Holiday Weekend

By Olivia Rutigliano | August 29, 2025

Danny DeVito, Director

By Vince Keenan | August 28, 2025

Show, Don't Tell: Donna Leon's Timeless Lessons for Well-Crafted Books

By Donna Leon | August 28, 2025

The Environmental Anxiety of <em>The Sisters Brothers</em>

The Environmental Anxiety of The Sisters Brothers

Jacques Audiard's adaptation of Patrick deWitt's novel is a forward-thinking, ecologically-moral fable

By Olivia Rutigliano | August 27, 2025

Good Bad Guys: Tim Lebbon On Crafting Villains

Good Bad Guys: Tim Lebbon On Crafting Villains

What makes a terrible person a great character? Showing their humanity.

By Tim Lebbon | August 27, 2025

10 New Books Out This Week

10 New Books Out This Week

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

By CrimeReads | August 25, 2025

Eli Cranor Talks Contact Sports, Crime Fiction, and Community

Eli Cranor Talks Contact Sports, Crime Fiction, and Community

Cranor returns to the beloved, brutal world of football in his latest novel, "Mississippi 42"

By Kevin Canfield | August 25, 2025

Karin Slaughter Is

Karin Slaughter Is "Writing for Entertainment, But...Firmly Planted in Reality"

25 novels in, the powerhouse author talks with John B. Valeri about her latest thriller and long career

By John B. Valeri | August 25, 2025

<em>The Old Man and the Gun</em> is a Happy Memory

The Old Man and the Gun is a Happy Memory

Olivia Rutigliano looks at Robert Redford's bank-robbing pseudo-swan-song

By Olivia Rutigliano | August 22, 2025

The Golem of Circuitry: On the Power of Language and the Rise of Artificial Intelligence 

The Golem of Circuitry: On the Power of Language and the Rise of Artificial Intelligence 

"Since I’m currently fixated on... narratives that explore the potentiality of artificial existence, I started connecting dots between the invention of imitative life, the actual spark of divinity, and the puissance of language itself."

By Lyndsay Faye | August 22, 2025

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