• Culture

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #32

    The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

    February 11, 2020  By Otto Penzler
    0

    Stolen Art, Nazis, and the Eternal Search for Justice

    75 years after the end of WWII, the search for stolen art continues.

    February 10, 2020  By Lawrence Dudley
    0

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #33

    Criss Cross (1949)

    February 10, 2020  By Otto Penzler
    0

    'The Outsider' Is a Classic Monster Story. So Why Disguise It as a Detective Show?

    HBO's new Stephen King adaptation plays a complex genre game.

    February 7, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
    0

    American Dirt Is The Latest Shot Fired in the Genre Wars

    American Dirt may be trauma porn, but that doesn't mean that a novel engaged with politics has to be literary—on the contrary, commercial fiction reaches a far wider audience.

    February 7, 2020  By Aya de Leon
    0

    The New Wave of Thrillers Featuring Deeply Flawed Characters

    Readers want flaws. Lots of them. They make the stories human.

    February 7, 2020  By Christina McDonald
    0

    On the Trail of Hollywood's Stolen Oscars

    Olivia Rutigliano navigates the strange, semi-secret marketplace for Hollywood's most coveted statues.

    February 5, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
    0

    My Uncle, The Librarian-Spy

    In 1943, a Harvard librarian was quietly recruited by the OSS to save the scattered books of Europe.

    February 5, 2020  By Kathy Peiss
    0

    How Raymond Chandler and the Tate-LaBianca Murders Inspired the Making of Chinatown

    The strange, unlikely events in 1969 that set Robert Towne on a course to write one of the greatest films ever made.

    February 4, 2020  By Sam Wasson
    0

    Ten Books Where the Setting Is a Character

    From 1950s L.A. to Savannah's iconic squares, these books bring time and place alive in unforgettable ways.

    February 4, 2020  By Sarah Pinborough
    0


    Page 342 of 421