Essays

The Sordid World of
1970s Hotels

Mosquitoes in the bedroom, outlets in the light socket, and a dead body in the pool...

August 21, 2020  By Hannah Dennison
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Jack Reacher and The Grand Unified Theory of Thrillers

Malcolm Gladwell dives into the world of Lee Child and his legendary wandering warrior.

August 20, 2020  By Malcolm Gladwell
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Music History, Noir, and the Plot Against Hip Hop

Author, filmmaker, and music journalist Nelson George on the book-within-a-book that appears in all his novels.

August 20, 2020  By Nelson George
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'She Has Haunted Me:' Virginia Woolf, Mothers and Me

On Grief, Memory, Fiction, and Motherhood

August 19, 2020  By Maggie Humm
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The Texas Terrors of My Childhood Imagination

How a chance sighting of a Texas Chainsaw Massacre poster kickstarted a lifetime of writing horror.

August 18, 2020  By Christopher Rice
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The Crime Fiction of New Zealand

A new generation of New Zealand authors is continuing a tradition of mystery.

August 17, 2020  By Paul French
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How an Indiana Preacher's Son Transformed into a Western Lawman—and a Killer

Ed Cantrell went to Wyoming and cast himself in the mould of Western gunslinging icons. Then, he was charged with murder.

August 14, 2020  By Rone Tempest
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The Unbearable Freedom of Feral Children

Or, We Are All Exactly as Animal as Each Other

August 14, 2020  By Maria Romasco-Moore
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My First Thriller: David Morrell

How the 'First Blood' author went from being a graduate student writing Faulkner imitations to reinventing the action novel.

August 13, 2020  By Rick Pullen
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Why Writing About Psychopaths Keeps Me Sane

On the perverse delights and vengeful satisfactions of channeling our darkest impulses into fiction.

August 13, 2020  By Nina Sadowsky
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