• Essays

    How To Tell If Your Bucolic Small Town Is Actually a Gateway to Hell

    On the perils of trusting what's just too good to be true

    March 27, 2025  By Emily Carpenter
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    America’s First Spy of World War II: Ernest Cuneo

    How A Nazi Plan to Blow up New York City Was Investigated by Churchill’s Spies at Rockefeller Center and Roosevelt's Trusted Advisor

    March 26, 2025  By Thomas Maier
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    Kill Your TV: How a Childhood Free of the Idiot Box Gave Katy Hays the Power of Attention

    "I am wired, I notice with increasing frequency, for things that develop more slowly, more deliberately."

    March 25, 2025  By Katy Hays
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    How to Create a Character for Our (or Any Other) Unjust Time

    Ron Currie on writing fiction through a dark period.

    March 25, 2025  By Ron Currie
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    A Brief History of 1970s Disaster Movies

    The special effects were sometimes lacking, but the stars sure turned out for these thrillers about things blowing up, catching fire, and falling apart.

    March 21, 2025  By Keith Roysdon
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    The Role of Family Secrets in Crime Novels and Thrillers

    How family histories and secrets serve as catalysts for criminal behavior and plot development.

    March 21, 2025  By January Gilchrist
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    Detections and Digressions:
    A Close Reading of P.D. James’ Devices and Desires

    James set out to capture British society more broadly than her predecessors, yet her novels had more in common with the Golden Age than she ever cared to admit

    March 20, 2025  By Curtis Evans
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    Golden Age Detectives in Love

    Celebrating the love lives of Lord Peter Wimsey, Harriet Vane, Roderick Alleyn, Albert Campion, and more.

    March 20, 2025  By Rosanne Limoncelli
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    Science Fiction, Locked Room Mysteries, and the Joy of Literary Games

    Olivia Waite on rewriting the rules of the universe and solving a mystery in space

    March 19, 2025  By Olivia Waite
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    Writing a Character Through a Psychotic Breakdown

    Nicci French on the delicate task of an extreme psychological event.

    March 19, 2025  By Nicci French
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