• Essays

    Louisa May Alcott’s Forgotten Thrillers Are Revolutionary Examples of Early Feminism

    Let's set aside her so-called "moral pap for children" and celebrate her sensationalist shockers.

    November 22, 2019  By Stephanie Sylverne
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    How a Gang of Heavy Metal Stoners Went to 1980s L.A. and Became the Notorious MS-13

    In the 1980s, L.A. was a mecca for street gangs. When civil war drove thousands of Salvadorans there, a violent new culture grew.

    November 21, 2019  By Óscar Martínez and Juan José Martínez
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    A Tale of Two Sex Worker
    Heist Stories

    Aya de Leon on Hustlers, social justice, and the complicated intersection of feminism and crime.

    November 21, 2019  By Aya de Leon
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    Film Noir Perfectly Captures the Mass Torment and Paranoia of the Mid-Twentieth Century

    Movies and Literature Were Insistent that Society was a Madhouse

    November 20, 2019  By Troy Rondinone
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    Psycho Invented the Spoiler Alert as We Know It

    A very personal history of trying to prevent spoiling cinema's first great shocking twist (and yes, there are spoilers ahead)

    November 19, 2019  By Jesse Pasternack
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    Tinker, Tailor, Wizard, Spy: The Joys (and Dangers) of Blending Genre Elements

    “Forget it, Frodo. It’s Mordor.”

    November 19, 2019  By W. L. Goodwater
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    Tarot Cards Contain All the Potential of Literature's Greatest Stories

    And it's always a mystery how things will end.

    November 19, 2019  By Julie Mayhew
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    New Delhi: Crime Books in the Indian Capital

    A major world city produces a major haul of crime fiction.

    November 18, 2019  By Paul French
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    True Crime, Identity Theft, and
    the Long Shadow of
    Family Fraud

    Where are the identity theft stories in the true crime boom? Axton Betz-Hamilton's new memoir is a powerful start.

    November 18, 2019  By Sarah Rosenthal
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    The Secret Life of Plants as Murder Weapons

    Plants make for great thrillers—it took me, a gardener, years to figure that out.

    November 18, 2019  By Karen Hugg
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