• Essays

    How Murder Mystery Theater Taught Me How to Craft Diabolical Puzzles

    G. T. Karber on entertaining friends with murdles, or murder puzzles.

    July 3, 2023  By G. T. Karber
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    The Return of the Cold War Novel and Its Glorious Uncertainties

    "To revisit the Cold War is to step off the moral high ground of Second World War fiction onto something boggier. It’s a land that grows rich stories, packed with psychological drama..."

    June 30, 2023  By Beatriz Williams
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    The Tale of an Accidental Horror Writer

    "[I]f I stopped trying to avoid the genre, would I find something there that spoke to my soul?"

    June 29, 2023  By Gigi Griffis
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    Can Your Series Characters Evolve? Yes. Do They Have To Change Over Time? No.

    David Housewright tackles the perennial problem of how to deal with long-running series characters and the trajectory of their stories.

    June 28, 2023  By David Housewright
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    The Bizarre, True Story of the World's Greatest Living Art Thief

    Is stealing a work of art ever excusable? One master thief claims yes.

    June 27, 2023  By Michael Finkel
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    Bologna: Crime Fiction in the Red City

    In a city known for food, academia, and politics, a rich crime fiction tradition can also be found.

    June 26, 2023  By Paul French
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    How Cormac McCarthy Used Crime Fiction’s Tropes to Make Masterpieces

    On the author's evolving style and journeys through the darkness.

    June 23, 2023  By Nick Kolakowski
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    Current Trans-Hysteria Mirrors Jekyll and Hyde

    "Today, anti-queer legislation is fueled by...a fear of anything “transformed" beyond “social norms.”

    June 23, 2023  By Jill Dearman
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    Panic Like It’s 1999: Analyze This, The Sopranos, and Mob Men in Therapy

    "The Sopranos and Analyze This lay bare how mobster characters...are often the personification of a problematic vision of American masculinity."

    June 22, 2023  By Devin McGrath-Conwell
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    On Millennial Aging and Nostalgia in Thrillers

    "[N]othing is ever simple, especially our hunger for the past."

    June 21, 2023  By Rebecca McKanna
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