• Essays

    Female Public Defenders Are Unsung Heroines. It Is Long Past Time to Change That.

    "The few times that court-appointed advocates for the indigent and despised are portrayed as heroes, they are almost always men."

    May 11, 2021  By Lara Bazelon
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    On Finding The Perfect Audiobook Narrator (Second Time's The Charm)

    After a disastrous first recording, I had a new mission in life: make a newer, better, version.

    May 10, 2021  By Alan Hruska
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    Why Are So Many Crime Novels Set In The Pacific Northwest?

    Hint: It's all the rain, gloom, secrecy, and serial killers.

    May 7, 2021  By Jason M. Hough
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    The Crime Books of Mongolia: Murder on the Roof of the World

    Crime and the City visits Mongolia, a country rich in minerals and caught in a struggle between world superpowers.

    May 7, 2021  By Paul French
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    Chester Gillette, Theodore Dreiser, and the Origins of America’s Fascination with True Crime

    In 1906, Grace Brown, a factory worker in upstate New York, was killed, her supervisor was arrested for the crime, and the course of American literature was altered forever.

    May 6, 2021  By L.R. Dorn
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    The Search for China's Serial Killers

    Reliable figures are hard to come by, but recent arrests indicate that China has an unknown number of American-style serial killers.

    May 6, 2021  By Brian Klingborg
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    To Tap Into The Gender Politics of My 1970s and 80s Childhood, I Turned To Playthings

    "It was toys that brought home how frighteningly recent the still shaky notion of gender equality is in our country."

    May 6, 2021  By Gin Phillips
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    The Art of Worldbuilding
    In Medias Res

    "Your readers are very, very smart. Trust them. They will pick up those breadcrumbs of context and piece them together like nobody’s business..."

    May 5, 2021  By Nicole Kornher-Stace
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    How to Solve Your Own Murder: The Dark Promise of 'D.O.A.'

    Revisiting the many iterations of a classic scenario.

    May 4, 2021  By Catherine McKenzie
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    Yes, Crime Writers, You Can Kill the Dog: A Counterpoint

    Carter Wilson on breaking the cardinal rule of crime fiction.

    May 4, 2021  By Carter Wilson
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