• TV & Film

    100 Years Ago, the World's Biggest Action Star Was a Woman Named Pearl

    The forgotten history of "Fearless Peerless Pearl" and the brief heyday of silent movie action heroines.

    February 12, 2020  By Radha Vatsal
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    The Difficult Art of Ending a Crime Fiction Series

    Two authors—working from opposite ends of Florida—bring epic noir series to a close, and live to tell the tale.

    February 12, 2020  By Steph Post
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    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #31

    Murder, My Sweet (1944)

    February 12, 2020  By Otto Penzler
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    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #32

    The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

    February 11, 2020  By Otto Penzler
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    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #33

    Criss Cross (1949)

    February 10, 2020  By Otto Penzler
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    '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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    What Authors Can Learn from the Greatest Long Takes in Movie History

    An unedited shot can create incredible tension and excitement—it works for novelists, too.

    January 28, 2020  By Nicci French
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