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    On Frankenstein, Polar Exploration, and the Stark Choices of Survival

    On Frankenstein, Polar Exploration, and the Stark Choices of Survival

    Polar exploration is the perfect setting to explore ambiguity, storytelling, and lack of resolution.

    By Henriette Lazaridis | December 6, 2022

    “True Detective” Season Two: An Unholy Mess, or Better Than You Remember?

    “True Detective” Season Two: An Unholy Mess, or Better Than You Remember?

    Was the celebrated/ridiculed show's second season actually in keeping with the tradition of California Noir?

    By Nick Kolakowski | December 2, 2022

    A Foretaste of Culinary Cozy Mysteries

    A Foretaste of Culinary Cozy Mysteries

    On the original gourmands of Golden Age detective fiction.

    By Maya Corrigan | December 2, 2022

    All the Pretty Beasts: What We Choose to Save of Our Natural World

    All the Pretty Beasts: What We Choose to Save of Our Natural World

    On conservation and fiction.

    By Bradley Somer | December 1, 2022

    What Makes Niagara Falls Such A Perfect Setting for a Murder Mystery?

    What Makes Niagara Falls Such A Perfect Setting for a Murder Mystery?

    The answer lies in the Gilded Age heyday of the popular tourist spot.

    By Rosemary Simpson | November 30, 2022

    Walter Mosley on Ta-Nehisi Coates's <em>Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet</em>

    Walter Mosley on Ta-Nehisi Coates's Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet

    "This permission to imagine, I believe, is the gift of all comics but T’Challa, the Black Panther, was a special gift to many young black people. Rather than a creation for us, it was a manifestation of our underlying dreams."

    By Walter Mosley | November 29, 2022

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    The Allure of the Arsenic Squad: Why I Write about 19th Century Women Serial Killers

    The Allure of the Arsenic Squad: Why I Write about 19th Century Women Serial Killers

    "[W]omen serial killers of this era call to me just because of their double transgression: that against the victim, and that against the contemporary ideals."

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    What's the Key to Writing Realistic Historical Fiction?

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    On The Italian Art of <em>Il Dolce Far Niente</em>, or The Sweetness of Doing Nothing

    On The Italian Art of Il Dolce Far Niente, or The Sweetness of Doing Nothing

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    Behind the Blue Wall: How my time in the LAPD Academy helped Shape My Series

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