• Essays

    Tangier: Spies, Smugglers, and Writers in the International City

    Crime and the City visits Morocco's northern port, where there's a long legacy of art and intrigue.

    June 7, 2021  By Paul French
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    The Unjustly Forgotten Crime Novels of John Sanford, Midcentury America's Radical Jewish Conscience

    He was a lawyer, a novelist, a committed Communist, a progenitor of rural noir, and a blacklisted screenwriter. Through it all, John Sanford kept on reinventing himself.

    June 5, 2021  By Jack Mearns
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    The Art of Balancing Multiple Mystery Series

    J.A. Jance moves from one long-running series to another, and it turns out the characters sometimes have minds of their own.

    June 4, 2021  By J.A. Jance
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    What Do Mystery Writers and Therapists Have in Common?

    Therapists, like detectives, piece together clues and information in order to solve the mystery: that of a client's own dilemmas.

    June 4, 2021  By Philippa East
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    Whatever Happened to Elise De Viane? On The Mystery Woman in Dashiell Hammett’s 1931 Sexual Assault Case

    90 years later, few know the story of Hammett's friend-turned-victim, who won a substantial settlement against the author after a violent sexual assault.

    June 3, 2021  By Curtis Evans
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    Stopping for a Moment to Appreciate the Original 1961 film One Hundred and One Dalmatians

    Aside from having one of the most high-stakes plots in crime film history, the film is an aesthetic masterpiece and an innovative development in the history of animation.

    June 3, 2021  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    A Translator Considers the Joys of Crime Fiction

    On the intense excitement of translating a mystery, line by line.

    June 3, 2021  By Michael Meigs
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    Finding Inspiration for Speculative Fiction in the History of Reproduction

    On self-conception, virgin birth, and deep male anxieties.

    June 3, 2021  By Sara Flannery Murphy
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    What Makes The Dark Side of Self-Help So Fascinating?

    "I’m fairly certain that, if I was a sociopath and driven enough, I could build a little cult of my own."

    June 3, 2021  By C. L. Taylor
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    The Silent Woman

    From musician to muse to wife to sex doll—the savage remaking of Alma Mahler

    June 1, 2021  By Maria Hummel
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