• Essays

    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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    Tracing the Hidden History of Secret Paris

    From medieval alchemists to 19th century illusionists, uncovering the mysteries of the past in the City of Light.

    May 31, 2021  By Gilles Legardinier
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