• Crime in History

    How a Pandemic and an Earthquake Shaped the Mafia’s Coldest Killer

    On the tumultuous youth of Umberto Anastasia, the "Lord High Executioner" of Murder, Inc.

    June 1, 2020  By Frank Dimatteo and Michael Benson
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    The Copyright Battle that Gave Cinematic Life to Dracula

    Nosferatu was an illegal adaptation, but the fight over it spawned a monsterous legacy.

    May 26, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Victorians Were Obsessed with the Idea that George Eliot Had Two Different-Sized Hands

    Presenting one of the 19th century's most random mysteries, and the modern scholar who solved it.

    May 19, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Before there was Jessica Fletcher, there were the Snoop Sisters

    That's Ernesta Snoop and Gwendolyn Snoop Nicholson, to you.

    May 13, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    That Time Wallace Stevens Punched Ernest Hemingway in the Face

    Things did not end well for him.

    May 6, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    The Dutch anti-Nazi children’s book from the 1940s that depicts Hitler as a bug

    Spoiler: he gets eaten.

    April 22, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    This Is the Book That Outsold Dracula in 1897

    It's weird, and you haven't heard of it.

    April 16, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Ludwig Bemelmans, Beloved Author of Madeline, Once Shot a Man.

    He was only sixteen.

    April 8, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist in history.

    Looking back on 100 years of the Queen of Crime.

    April 3, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Raymond Chandler Wanted Cary Grant to Play Philip Marlowe.

    What a different movie that would have been.

    April 2, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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