• Essays

    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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    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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