• Essays

    The Copyright Battle that Gave Cinematic Life to Dracula

    Nosferatu was an illegal adaptation, but the fight over it spawned a monsterous legacy.

    May 26, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Noir Fiction: When the Real Is Too Raw

    Laird Barron on leg-breakers, Alaskan hard men, and writing toward a piece of the truth.

    May 26, 2020  By Laird Barron
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    How the Disappearance of Etan Patz Changed the Face of New York City Forever

    Stranger danger and the specter of childhood.

    May 26, 2020  By Paul Renfro
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    The Great Elmore Leonard Renaissance of the Late ‘90s

    Leonard was always popular in Hollywood. A trio of stylish adaptations in the 1990s helped make him a superstar.

    May 22, 2020  By Zach Vasquez
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    Cancer, My Mystery Novel, and Me: A Survivor's Story

    I had always been too afraid to write a police procedural. Fighting cancer taught me not be afraid of anything.

    May 22, 2020  By Rachel Howzell Hall
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    John Waters: Kissin’ Cousin of Crime

    A Crime Reader's Guide to the Pope of Trash

    May 21, 2020  By Thomas Pluck
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    Writing in the Time of Corona

    Olen Steinhauer on the ideas that get writers to the keyboard during times of crisis.

    May 20, 2020  By Olen Steinhauer
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    Five Books That Will Make Your Child a Future Crime Writer

    And other lessons learned from pandemic reading and writing.

    May 19, 2020  By Ivy Pochoda
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    Victorians Were Obsessed with the Idea that George Eliot Had Two Different-Sized Hands

    Presenting one of the 19th century's most random mysteries, and the modern scholar who solved it.

    May 19, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Isolation Thrillers, Maternity Leave, and The Long History of Social Distancing and Gender

    Why Does Quarantine Feel So Familiar?

    May 19, 2020  By Harriet Walker
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