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Mickey Spillane Turns 100

Mickey Spillane Turns 100

Max Allan Collins on Sex, Violence, and Mike Hammer

By Max Allan Collins | March 9, 2018

Weimar Germany: How Democracy Dies

Weimar Germany: How Democracy Dies

The Babylon Berlin Author Exposes Threats to Democracy, Then and Now

By volkerkutscher | March 9, 2018

Let’s Make a Bechdel Test for Crime Fiction

Let’s Make a Bechdel Test for Crime Fiction

Can a troubled genre raise the bar for feminism?

By Molly Odintz | March 8, 2018

Val McDermid on the Remarkable Rise of Tartan Noir

Val McDermid on the Remarkable Rise of Tartan Noir

The Birth and Boom of Scottish Crime Fiction

By Val McDermid | March 8, 2018

The Original Ladies of Crime

The Original Ladies of Crime

Sarah Weinman Celebrates the Mystery Women Who Paved the Way for Agatha Christie

By Sarah Weinman | March 8, 2018

When Your Fictional Sex Scandal Unfolds In Real Life

When Your Fictional Sex Scandal Unfolds In Real Life

Sarah Vaughan on Britain’s #MeToo Movement and Life Imitating Art

By Sarah Vaughan | March 8, 2018

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The Comfort of Crime Novels

By Emily Winslow | March 8, 2018

Laura Lippman on James M. Cain's Transgressive Noir

By Laura Lippman | March 7, 2018

Jim Crow Stories Made Me Want
to Write Spy Fiction

By Jason Overstreet | March 7, 2018

Fighting Injustice with Fiction

Fighting Injustice with Fiction

The Activism of Ausma Zehanat Khan, On and Off the Page

By Ausma Zehanat Khan | March 7, 2018

When Your 60-Year-Old Family Mystery Shows Up on Netflix

When Your 60-Year-Old Family Mystery Shows Up on Netflix

Paul Vidich on the Story of His Uncle, Featured in Errol Morris's Wormwood

By Paul Vidich | February 20, 2018

Psychological Suspense and the #MeToo Movement

Psychological Suspense and the #MeToo Movement

Alafair Burke on the Unlikely Timing of Her Book, The Wife

By Lisa Levy | January 23, 2018

Neither Vamp Nor Victim: Sara Paretsky on the Feminist Awakening That Led to V.I. Warshawski

Neither Vamp Nor Victim: Sara Paretsky on the Feminist Awakening That Led to V.I. Warshawski

Fighting for Equality, from a Kansas Campus to the South Side of Chicago

By Sara Paretsky | January 4, 2018

The Suburban Serial Killer Next Door

The Suburban Serial Killer Next Door

On the Dark, Imagined Secrets of Pittsburgh

By Rebecca Drake | January 4, 2018

On Rape Culture in Crime Fiction

On Rape Culture in Crime Fiction

Why We Can't Seem to Stop Reading (and Writing) Violence and Abuse Against Women

By Lisa Levy | November 21, 2017

Why I Turned From Writing Romantic Comedies to Thrillers

Why I Turned From Writing Romantic Comedies to Thrillers

On Switching Genres and Discovering a New Way of Writing

By C.L. Taylor | November 17, 2017

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