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Essays
Strong Women in Fiction: The Problem With Magic Bracelets
Elysia Whisler was told her protagonist was 'too strong'
By
Elysia Whisler
| December 1, 2021
The Underappreciated Genius of William Lindsay Gresham's
Nightmare Alley
An American classic of fear and manipulation.
By
Nick Tosches
| November 30, 2021
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Detection Dogs
What do working dogs do? And what happens to them when they retire?
By
Sara Driscoll
| November 29, 2021
On Family, Distance, and Love in the Time of Covid
Laura Davis lives in California. Her daughter lives in Jordan. Over the past two years, they've faced new struggles—and found new ways to connect.
By
Laura Davis
| November 25, 2021
The Spy Who Never Was
British Cold War-era journalist John Peet defected to East Germany, later claiming to have been a Soviet sleeper agent. But was he?
By
Jordan Todorov
| November 24, 2021
Vandalism, Graffiti, and The Art of the Non-Belongers
On the rude, beautiful power of rebellious words scrawled on the side of an underpass
By
M. Steven S.
| November 24, 2021
Best Reviewed
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10 Underappreciated American Noirs of the Late 1950s and the 1960s
By
Andrew Nette
| November 23, 2021
Respect the Dead. Write More Realistic Fiction.
By
Robert Reuland
| November 23, 2021
The French Murder Case That Shocked a Francophile Family Into Writing A Detective Series
By
Robert Goldberg
| November 22, 2021
Crime Fiction Is Ridiculous. We Might As Well Have Fun With It.
"[T]here needs to be a tacit acknowledgement...that author and reader are both in on the same joke. And it is a joke."
By
Daisy Waugh
| November 22, 2021
The Downstairs World: A Fascinating Setting for a Murder Mystery Sleuth
There's no better sleuth for an interwar novel than a housekeeper.
By
Colleen Cambridge
| November 22, 2021
Forensic Psychologist Richard Lettieri On The Many Pathways to a False Confession
Coercive tactics, subtle suggestions, and the urge to comply with authority figures all may cause the innocent to confess.
By
Richard Lettieri, PhD
| November 19, 2021
Making Good out of Murder: On Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning, Crime Reporters and Crime Writers
In the 1930s, crime reporters and spouses Bristow and Manning turned their New Orleans crime beat into fertile fodder for fiction.
By
Curtis Evans
| November 18, 2021
What We Owe To The Victorians
Modern sanitation, fast transit, global communications, and so much more...
By
Emily Brightwell
| November 18, 2021
Why Are There So Many Missing Mothers in Fiction with Empowered Young Heroines?
Sara Foster on challenging a persistent trope
By
Sara Foster
| November 18, 2021
Having Faith in Thrillers
Two Christian authors reflect on what themes of faith can do for thriller stories.
By
Andrews and Wilson
| November 17, 2021
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