• Essays

    Why Tariq Ashkanani Chose to Set His New Novel in America

    "There is freedom in being able to play a little fast and loose with the rules, a recurring motif that I find predominantly in US fiction."

    April 8, 2025  By Tariq Ashkanani
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    Remembering the Bleak, Beautiful Poetry of Ken Bruen's Noir

    Bruen wrote unflinchingly of the darkest parts of society, and his Jack Taylor series was the epitome of noir style.

    April 7, 2025  By Scott Montgomery
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    High Net Worth Victims: Why We Love our Murderees to be Filthy Rich

    "Killing the rich—in literature at least—appears to come with a built-in motive, one that likely implicates us all."

    April 7, 2025  By Matt Plass
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    Murder and “Mitteleuropa” in Agatha Christie

    A survey of Christie's characters hailing from Central Europe.

    April 4, 2025  By Naomi Kaye
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    ‘Weasels Ripped My Flesh’ and Other Men’s Adventure Magazine Legends

    Tales from the world of resurgent interest in those midcentury magazines with outlandish headlines and legions of readers.

    April 4, 2025  By Keith Roysdon
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    Bryan Gruley on Research, Inspiration, and a Notorious Hockey Fight

    Finding a story's emotional truth.

    April 2, 2025  By Bryan Gruley
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    Power and Punishment: Using the Language of Fantasy to Subvert Real-Life Oppression

    "[I]t is in this interplay between power, its exercise, and its fettering that the fantasy genre’s subversive nature shines."

    April 2, 2025  By Shalini Abeysekara
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    Women’s Rights and Women’s Wrongs: Darkly Feminist YA Books

    "The darkness can be more subtle. The feminism can be a vibe."

    March 31, 2025  By Rachel Ekstrom Courage
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    There Is Only One Plot – Things Are Not As They Seem

    Why the Jim Thompson adage still holds true and is the key to good storytelling.

    March 28, 2025  By C.B. Everett
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    Saratoga Schaefer on Exploring Portrayals of Drinking and Sobriety in Genre Fiction 

    The author of 'Serial Killer Support Group' explains why they wanted to write a novel with an alternative depiction of sobriety.

    March 27, 2025  By Saratoga Schaefer
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