• Essays

    Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Detection Dogs

    What do working dogs do? And what happens to them when they retire?

    November 29, 2021  By Sara Driscoll
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    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.

    November 25, 2021  By Laura Davis
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    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?

    November 24, 2021  By Jordan Todorov
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    Vandalism, Graffiti, and The Art of the Non-Belongers

    On the rude, beautiful power of rebellious words scrawled on the side of an underpass

    November 24, 2021  By M. Steven S. 
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    10 Underappreciated American Noirs of the Late 1950s and the 1960s

    Andrew Nette examines the largely forgotten period of American cinema that came between classic film noir and 1970s neo-noir.

    November 23, 2021  By Andrew Nette
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    Respect the Dead. Write More Realistic Fiction.

    "The fantasy unpacks itself weekly from red Panavision trucks, spitting distance from the courthouse in downtown Brooklyn where I work."

    November 23, 2021  By Robert Reuland
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    The French Murder Case That Shocked a Francophile Family Into Writing A Detective Series

    Gerald Jay Goldberg was haunted by a brutal murder of a tourist in the South of France. Decades later, his family finishes his series.

    November 22, 2021  By Robert Goldberg
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    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."

    November 22, 2021  By Daisy Waugh
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    The Downstairs World: A Fascinating Setting for a Murder Mystery Sleuth

    There's no better sleuth for an interwar novel than a housekeeper.

    November 22, 2021  By Colleen Cambridge
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    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.

    November 19, 2021  By Richard Lettieri, PhD
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