Crime Reads » Essays

Six Women Who Helped Define the Regency Era—And Our Conceptions of Modernity

Six Women Who Helped Define the Regency Era—And Our Conceptions of Modernity

On Mary Shelley, Ada Lovelace, Jane Austen, and other strong-willed women from the early 19th century.

By Andrea Penrose | September 30, 2019

How to Build Close Personal Relationships While Saving the World

How to Build Close Personal Relationships While Saving the World

An alpha female's guide to thrillers, action, and romance.

By Christina Dodd | September 27, 2019

Martin Scorsese’s Gangland Sagas and the Dream of Upward Social Mobility

Martin Scorsese’s Gangland Sagas and the Dream of Upward Social Mobility

For decades, the director has been charting a dark, debauched journey up the criminal ladder.

By Zach Vasquez | September 26, 2019

Joan Little and the Killing of a Jailer

Joan Little and the Killing of a Jailer

Criminal Broads Presents The Cause Célèbre

By Tori Telfer | September 26, 2019

Hog Noir and the Morally Ambiguous Hero

Hog Noir and the Morally Ambiguous Hero

An infestation of feral hogs creates a bleak moral universe that can only be described in one word—noir.

By Heather Harper Ellett | September 24, 2019

Remembering an Odd, Artful 'Requiem for the Detective Novel'

Remembering an Odd, Artful 'Requiem for the Detective Novel'

In 1950, the Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt published a lost classic of crime fiction.

By Gilly Macmillan | September 24, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

The Mysteries of Budapest

By Paul French | September 23, 2019

General Douglas MacArthur: A Life of (Alleged) Conspiracies

By Steve Anderson | September 23, 2019

The Most Wanted Woman
in America

By Jonathan Lee | September 20, 2019

Law & Order SVU Has Been Going Strong for 20 Years—But the Original Was Better

Law & Order SVU Has Been Going Strong for 20 Years—But the Original Was Better

Celebrating procedure over personal lives.

By Lilly Dancyger | September 20, 2019

Authenticity is the Key for Writing a Compelling Setting

Authenticity is the Key for Writing a Compelling Setting

On setting a novel in Minnesota and talking more about more than the bitter, bitter cold

By P.J. Tracy | September 20, 2019

A Crime Author Grapples With the Old Question: Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?

A Crime Author Grapples With the Old Question: Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?

Reed Farrel Coleman on "borrowing from the headlines" and continuing a beloved Robert B. Parker series.

By Reed Farrel Coleman | September 19, 2019

On the Female Archetypes of True Crime

On the Female Archetypes of True Crime

Reading Rachel Monroe's Savage Appeties and Sady Doyle's Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers Together

By Scarlett Harris | September 19, 2019

Discovering a Lost Classic of 1970s Crime Fiction

Discovering a Lost Classic of 1970s Crime Fiction

Ralph Dennis was one of the best, and most neglected crime writers of the decade—and he's due for a revival.

By Lee Goldberg | September 18, 2019

The Golden Age Detective Fiction Renaissance

The Golden Age Detective Fiction Renaissance

How Agatha Christie and her Golden Age cohorts came back into fashion, and why that's reviving the traditional mystery.

By Martin Edwards | September 17, 2019

Neon No Man’s Land and Sleaze Noir: On The Underseen Brilliance of <em>Vice Squad</em>

Neon No Man’s Land and Sleaze Noir: On The Underseen Brilliance of Vice Squad

Celebrating a lost 1980s neo-noir classic

By Zach Vasquez | September 17, 2019

« First ‹ Previous 175 176 177 178179180 181 182 183 Next ›Last »

Page 179 of 211