• Essays

    On the Benefits of Building a Book Series Out of a Community of Characters

    Changing protagonists can set a writer—and a reader—free.

    December 5, 2019  By Allen Eskens
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    The Art of Interviewing Subjects—And Actually Getting To the Truth

    Tom Rosenstiel on journalism, fiction, and different kinds of truth.

    December 4, 2019  By Tom Rosenstiel
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    Wilkie Collins and the Prison of Marriage

    Collins was a pioneer of domestic suspense—also, a hypocrite.

    December 4, 2019  By Radha Vatsal
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    Blowback: Late 1960s and ’70s Pulp and Popular Fiction about the Vietnam War

    When soldiers returned home, a new wave of crime fiction captured the trauma—and the moral abyss.

    December 3, 2019  By Andrew Nette
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    Jessica Fletcher and the Long Afterlife of Murder, She Wrote

    Upon publishing the 50th book in the Murder, She Wrote series, Jon Land reflects on the eternal appeal of Cabot Cove.

    December 3, 2019  By Jon Land
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    The Sixth Victim: A Murder in Small-Town Japan

    Its motto was “the smallest village with the brightest future”—until the massacre.

    December 3, 2019  By Shōko Egawa
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    Alaska: Northern Noir

    Crime fiction has found a strange home in the cold wilds of Alaska.

    December 2, 2019  By Paul French
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    Our Boys From Jefferson Street: Reckoning with the Murder of Jimmy Hoffa and a Culture of Tarnished Men

    Mauro Altamura signed up as an extra on 'The Irishman'—he'd been struggling with the legacy of the Hoffa killing for 50 years.

    November 27, 2019  By Mauro Altamura
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    Knives Out Is a Surprisingly Subversive Mystery

    Rian Johnson's new movie celebrates the whodunit—while also skewering its traditional power structure to condemn the 1%

    November 27, 2019  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Growing Up in the Midst of a Low-Level Civil War

    I thought I had emerged from my Northern Irish childhood unscathed. It took me years to realize that wasn’t true.

    November 26, 2019  By Michael Hughes
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