• Essays

    How Today's Top Authors Find the Right Balance for the "Literary Thriller"

    Jean Kwok asks authors how they approach reader and artistic demands.

    October 11, 2023  By Jean Kwok
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    Sarah Weinman on Helen Garner and the Ongoing Conversations of True Crime

    In This House of Grief Garner "takes the act of bearing witness to new levels."

    October 10, 2023  By Sarah Weinman
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    “A Matter of Opinion”: Three Crimes and the Myths Surrounding Them

    "Each of these crimes has generated decades’ worth of mythology, some of it so far from the truth that the actual story isn’t recognizable in its own mythos."

    October 10, 2023  By Sam Rebelein
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    America’s Obsession with Asylums

    Or, How Visiting an Abandoned Lunatic Asylum Laid the Foundation for a Young Adult Novel

    October 10, 2023  By Tracy Hewitt Meyer
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    Writing Influences: A Cuban-Miami Identity & the Periphery of Santeria

    "I wanted to explore different ways this inherited power could be both a burden and a gift, and how often our diasporic heritage is built on silence."

    October 10, 2023  By Vanessa Montalban
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    The LAPD Films of Ron Shelton, Twenty Years Later

    Dark Blue and Hollywood Homicide were unfairly dismissed by audiences and critics. They deserved better.

    October 6, 2023  By Vince Keenan
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    The Four Corners of Subjectivity

    How do crime writers get readers to "care about" characters who do terrible things?

    October 6, 2023  By Jake Lamar
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    Following Agatha Christie’s Footsteps in Torquay

    Kavitha Rao on the unique pleasures of attending the International Agatha Christie Festival

    October 5, 2023  By Kavitha Rao
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    Note to Self, and Other True Crime Fans: These Tragedies Are Real

    Daniel Sweren-Becker on the cost of immersing yourself in true crime culture.

    October 4, 2023  By Daniel Sweren-Becker
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    How a Trip to a Museum Turned into the Perfect Start to a Mystery

    Or, a brief tour of the Churchill War Rooms, the underground bunker from which Churchill staged his war efforts.

    October 4, 2023  By Julia Kelly
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