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A Requiem for Maggie Smith

A Requiem for Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith was not in many crime movies. She stole the show in them, anyway. And in everything else.

By Olivia Rutigliano | September 27, 2024

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month: September 2024

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month: September 2024

Featuring new books by Richard Osman, Attica Locke, and more.

By CrimeReads | September 27, 2024

We Inherit Our Ghosts: On Gothic Fiction and the Need to Remember

We Inherit Our Ghosts: On Gothic Fiction and the Need to Remember

"The gothic as a genre is about the skeletons in the family’s closet."

By Wen-yi Lee | September 27, 2024

A Failed Utopian Settlement and a Lingering Historical Mystery

A Failed Utopian Settlement and a Lingering Historical Mystery

"How could I craft a true crime narrative based on conflicting, and sometimes deliberately deceitful, accounts?"

By Abbott Kahler | September 26, 2024

Andrew Nette's 10 Favorite Films of Political Violence and Revolution

Andrew Nette's 10 Favorite Films of Political Violence and Revolution

In a new book, writers reflect on the cinema of political engagement and resistance.

By Andrew Nette | September 26, 2024

What is going on with the new <em>Wuthering Heights</em> Adaptation?

What is going on with the new Wuthering Heights Adaptation?

Emerald Fennell's new adaptation promises a fundamental misreading of the novel.

By Olivia Rutigliano | September 25, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

How Patricia Highsmith, Shirley Jackson, and Leigh Brackett Defined a Strand of Midcentury American Literature

By Ashley Lawson | September 25, 2024

Dean Koontz: On Writing Novels That Make Your Publisher Extremely Uneasy

By Dean Koontz | September 24, 2024

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads | September 23, 2024

I Don't Know Why, but It's Time to Watch <em>A Fish Called Wanda</em>

I Don't Know Why, but It's Time to Watch A Fish Called Wanda

It is. It just is!

By Olivia Rutigliano | September 20, 2024

Spooky Sleuthing: 5 Noir and Detective Films That Feature the Supernatural

Spooky Sleuthing: 5 Noir and Detective Films That Feature the Supernatural

The solution may...defy reason.

By Nick Kolakowski | September 20, 2024

What does it mean to

What does it mean to "Visualize Detection?"

A transcript from Olivia Rutigliano's talk on detective fiction and visual culture at New York City's Salmagundi Club

By Olivia Rutigliano | September 19, 2024

A Tale of Two Cities: Taking My Fictional Detective From Minneapolis to LA

A Tale of Two Cities: Taking My Fictional Detective From Minneapolis to LA

PJ Tracy shakes up her series with some changes in setting

By P.J. Tracy | September 19, 2024

The Backlist: Rebecca Makkai on 'The Murderess' and Reading in Translation

The Backlist: Rebecca Makkai on 'The Murderess' and Reading in Translation

Makkai and Polly Stewart discuss Alexandros Papadiamantis and the project that's taking Makkai across the world of literature.

By Polly Stewart | September 18, 2024

Storm Warning: A Surprisingly Frank Noir Indictment of the Ku Klux Klan, Starring Ronald Reagan

Storm Warning: A Surprisingly Frank Noir Indictment of the Ku Klux Klan, Starring Ronald Reagan

A mostly forgotten 1951 film looked at terrorism in small-town America.

By Keith Roysdon | September 18, 2024

Bringing Nicholas Meyer's <em>The Seven-Per-Cent Solution</em> to the Big Screen

Bringing Nicholas Meyer's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution to the Big Screen

Inside the most legendary adaptation process in Sherlockian history

By Steven T. Doyle | September 17, 2024

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