How Subplots and Plot Filaments Lend Texture and Depth to Any Novel
And they’re the key to continuity in a mystery series.
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By Queer Crime Writers | September 20, 2023
Murder Ballads, the Original True Crime
On the long tradition of folk music about crimes, used to help communities process trauma and memorialize victims.
By Janet Beard | September 19, 2023
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By Manning Wolfe | September 18, 2023
Native American Literature: Tribes and Tribulations
By Deborah J. Ledford | September 18, 2023
A Haunting in Venice is the Best of Kenneth Branagh's Poirot Adaptations, and an Engaging Film On Its Own
By Olivia Rutigliano | September 15, 2023
Jason Voorhees: Neurodivergent Icon?
By Mark Wheaton | September 15, 2023
The Freudian Gothic Fiction of Ira Levin
"Behind the terse style, there is a poetry to the ironies of Levin’s plots, and there is a brutality that emerges from his intricate imagination."
By James Reich | September 15, 2023
When is a Character’s Dishonesty Justified?
"[W]hen is it ethical...for characters to do a great right, by doing a little wrong?"
By R. J. Jacobs | September 14, 2023
