Essays

What Agatha Christie's Novels—And Life—Have to Teach Today’s Crime Writers

A Christie Curriculum

November 4, 2021  By Lori Rader-Day
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The Lure of Objects: On the Outsized Importance of Talismans and Symbols

"Have you ever stopped to think about how the items in books help to define our favorite characters?"

November 4, 2021  By Heather Redmond
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When Reality Is Too Strange To Make It Into Your Novel

"You can't make this up": Anne Emery on the bizarre coincidences behind her latest historical mystery.

November 4, 2021  By Anne Emery
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A Celebration of Sleuth-Mothers

"Society often overlooks and even erases women caring for children...allow[ing] the sleuth-mother to observe and investigate in the shadows."

November 3, 2021  By Raquel V. Reyes
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Ben and Stella Dickson: From Outlaws to Folk Heroes

Bonnie and Clyde weren't the only couple robbing banks and capturing hearts in the 1930s.

November 3, 2021  By Dietrich Kalteis
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Anything You Don’t See: Some Ghosts of Southern Brooklyn

William Boyle on Brooklyn in the final days before 9-11

November 2, 2021  By William Boyle
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A Crime Novelist's Mea Culpa

"I confess that in my novel there is a beautiful corpse, and that she is female. I may have chosen not to creepily linger on the details of her body as she lays on the slab at the morgue, but she is still there."

November 2, 2021  By Eloísa Díaz
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Alex Schulman: In Order To Heal From The Trauma of My Past, I Had To Stop Ignoring It

"The past lives, and perhaps our power lies in how we interpret it"

November 1, 2021  By Alex Schulman
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Harare, Zimbabwe: Writing Crime in a Tough Town

An African capital with turbulent politics and an impressive literary output.

November 1, 2021  By Paul French
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How Crime Fiction Can Help Us Understand The Many Layers of Violence in Society

"We’re wired for small-scale, agonistic conflict, where we feel, at a gut level, that we have agency."

November 1, 2021  By Joy Castro
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