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Illegal Wildlife Trade is a Multi-Billion Dollar Business

Illegal Wildlife Trade is a Multi-Billion Dollar Business

"Beyond ecology and animal welfare there’s now another reason to worry about the illegal animal trade—it’s become a multi-billion-dollar business for international criminal organizations."

By Brian Klingborg | May 19, 2022

Motherhood Is A Cult

Motherhood Is A Cult

"[A]s long as childless women like me are...expressing a long-held dream of bringing a child—any child—to the American Girl flagship store...the cult will loom large."

By Anne Heltzel | May 18, 2022

On Rock and Roll and Toxic Masculinity

On Rock and Roll and Toxic Masculinity

What Charles Harper Webb's time in a rock band taught him about the struggle for power.

By Charles Harper Webb | May 18, 2022

If You Love Me, You Will Find It Out: Mysteries Written in the Language of Flowers

If You Love Me, You Will Find It Out: Mysteries Written in the Language of Flowers

"Almost any plant—and many I’d never heard of—can be used to send a message..."

By Robin Farrar Maass | May 18, 2022

Writing History When the Crime Is Stranger Than Fiction

Writing History When the Crime Is Stranger Than Fiction

When it comes to Soviet espionage and the Alger Hiss episode, fiction has to work hard to keep up with the deceptions.

By David Adams Cleveland | May 17, 2022

Robin Peguero: How Proximity to Murder Has Shaped My Life

Robin Peguero: How Proximity to Murder Has Shaped My Life

A Harvard man and a Florida teenager: the author of a new legal thriller looks back at the murderers that set his course.

By Robin Peguero | May 17, 2022

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The Comfort of Dark Crime Fiction in Dark Times

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By Caite Dolan-Leach | May 16, 2022

Black and White and Noir All Over: A Brief History of Vintage Newspaper Crime Comic Strips

By Keith Roysdon | May 13, 2022

Revisiting Gary Indiana’s Bewildering, Haunting True Crime Trilogy

Revisiting Gary Indiana’s Bewildering, Haunting True Crime Trilogy

Indiana's books were bold, inventive, and ahead of their time.

By Tobias Carroll | May 13, 2022

10 Reasons Why Victorian England Is the Perfect Setting for Murder

10 Reasons Why Victorian England Is the Perfect Setting for Murder

Pea-soup fog, charlatans, death cults, spiritualists, and so much more!

By Connie Berry | May 12, 2022

Experiencing Everyday Horror Through The Eyes Of A Post-Trauma Protagonist

Experiencing Everyday Horror Through The Eyes Of A Post-Trauma Protagonist

"That’s the magic of writing. This book is upsetting people. It’s making people feel."

By Kelly McClure | May 12, 2022

Eden Collinsworth on the Mystery Behind a Masterpiece

Eden Collinsworth on the Mystery Behind a Masterpiece

On the perambulations of Lady with an Ermine, one of Leonardo Da Vinci's strangest portraits.

By Eden Collinsworth | May 11, 2022

Amber Cowie on Elevating Horror

Amber Cowie on Elevating Horror

"Horror is the most primitively powerful method of embedding a message."

By Amber Cowie | May 11, 2022

Crime Fiction Is Having a TV Moment, and That Moment Isn’t Going To Be Over Any Time Soon.

Crime Fiction Is Having a TV Moment, and That Moment Isn’t Going To Be Over Any Time Soon.

Dervla McTiernan on the new wave of limited series adapted from standalone thrillers.

By Dervla McTiernan | May 10, 2022

Sara Paretsky: V.I. <br>Warshawski and My Quest for Voice and Justice

Sara Paretsky: V.I.
Warshawski and My Quest for Voice and Justice

"V. I. Warshawski becomes not just my voice in the world, but the expresser of my own conflicts over morality."

By Sara Paretsky | May 10, 2022

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