• Essays

    A New True Crime Book Investigates a Sister's Murder and Official Indifference

    In 1978, Therese Allore vanished. Six months later, her body was discovered. Her brother is still looking for answers.

    May 20, 2022  By Peter Handel
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    Suspects & Suspicion: What Jane Austen Teaches Us About Who (And Who Not) To Trust

    "What is one obvious quality that nearly all of Austen’s rogues have in common? Charm."

    May 19, 2022  By Claudia Gray
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    Martina Navratilova, Thriller Novelist

    Beth Parker looks back at the brief run of tennis thrillers co-authored by one of the greatest ever to play.

    May 19, 2022  By Beth Parker
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     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."

    May 19, 2022  By Brian Klingborg
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    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."

    May 18, 2022  By Anne Heltzel
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    On Rock and Roll and Toxic Masculinity

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

    May 18, 2022  By Charles Harper Webb
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    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..."

    May 18, 2022  By Robin Farrar Maass
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    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.

    May 17, 2022  By David Adams Cleveland
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    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.

    May 17, 2022  By Robin Peguero
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    The Comfort of Dark Crime Fiction in Dark Times

    Misha Popp on the viewers who find what they need in Criminal Minds

    May 16, 2022  By Misha Popp
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