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The Crime of My Life

The Crime of My Life

A crime reporter turned his investigative skills toward an old family crime with deep contemporary relevance and finds himself implicated

By Baynard Woods | August 4, 2022

One Night in Tehran, August 1953: The Law of Unintended Consequences

One Night in Tehran, August 1953: The Law of Unintended Consequences

Tom Bradby on lingering imperialism, the coup, and the moments that reverberated through history.

By Tom Bradby | August 4, 2022

Trapped by the Unspoken: Trauma, Secrets, Lies, and the Psychological Thriller

Trapped by the Unspoken: Trauma, Secrets, Lies, and the Psychological Thriller

On "the power of the things we hide."

By Anastasia Zadeik | August 4, 2022

Collective Narrators: The Best Uses of the First-Person Plural in Literature

Collective Narrators: The Best Uses of the First-Person Plural in Literature

The Greek chorus will now be heard from...

By Hayley Scrivenor | August 3, 2022

The Women of the Manhattan Project

The Women of the Manhattan Project

From "Calutron girls" to washerwomen, meet the women who kept Los Alamos and Oak Ridge running.

By Sarah James | August 3, 2022

On Finding Myself In Queer Suspense Fiction

On Finding Myself In Queer Suspense Fiction

"There are more stories about people like me out there now than I ever could have imagined."

By Ashton Noone | August 3, 2022

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What's the Key to Multi-POV? Many Colorful Index Cards

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On The Comforts, and Limits, of Disaster Preparedness

On The Comforts, and Limits, of Disaster Preparedness

"You can prep all you want and have fun doing it. But it’s impossible to prepare for the worst. The worst has too many faces."

By Brooke Beyfuss | July 28, 2022

Never Alone: On Visitors from the Past

Never Alone: On Visitors from the Past

"I realize now that if almost anyone else had experienced a levitation as I had, they would have sprinted for the door..."

By Penny Goetjen | July 28, 2022

Some Things in Anthony Bourdain's Trip to Taipei Made No Sense

Some Things in Anthony Bourdain's Trip to Taipei Made No Sense

Almost a decade after the episode aired, author Ed Lin still finds himself thinking about Bourdain's trip to Taiwan.

By Ed Lin | July 27, 2022

August, 1896: A Heat Wave Spawns a Crime Wave in Gilded Age New York

August, 1896: A Heat Wave Spawns a Crime Wave in Gilded Age New York

"[V]iolent crimes such as murder and assaults spike in hot weather, and the hotter the weather the worse the crime..."

By W. H. Flint | July 27, 2022

The Search for the Funniest Crime Novel Ever Written

The Search for the Funniest Crime Novel Ever Written

Elmore Leonard, Donald E. Westlake, Patricia Highsmith (wait, Patricia Highsmith...?)—they can all make a claim for the title of funniest crime novelist. So how to choose a winner?

By Dwyer Murphy | July 26, 2022

Anarchism: Beauty and Terror in the 1890s

Anarchism: Beauty and Terror in the 1890s

"Anarchism was born from the ugliness of industrialization"

By Nev March | July 26, 2022

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