• New Nonfiction

    Show, Don't Tell: Donna Leon's Timeless Lessons for Well-Crafted Books

    Leon analyzes Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer novels and finds new lessons for writers in their well-worn pages

    August 28, 2025  By Donna Leon
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    Gregg Olsen On a Haunting Crime and The Snowballing Consequences of Trauma

    Read an excerpt from Olsen's latest work of true crime, "Out of the Woods"

    August 15, 2025  By Gregg Olsen
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    The Secret Committee That Persecuted Black and Gay People In the Name of Fighting Communism

    On Florida's hidden Cold War on Black and queer lives

    July 3, 2025  By Robert B. Fieseler
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    Caitlin Rother on Letting Surprises Happen

    In writing nonfiction, the research always takes you in a new direction.

    June 24, 2025  By Caitlin Rother
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    Searching for Hazel Drew, Whose Legend Inspired 'Twin Peaks'

    A 1908 murder in Upstate New York went unsolved for a century. The victim's ghost appeared to one author in a dream.

    June 18, 2025  By Jerry C. Drake
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    Elmore Leonard: Birth of the Cool

    In an excerpt from the new biography, Cooler than Cool, Leonard discovers his crime fiction voice after reading George V. Higgins, while balancing a burgeoning career in screenwriting.

    June 10, 2025  By C.M. Kushins
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    The High Cost of Silence: My Secret Life as a Whistleblower

    In the new book, 'False Claims,' Lisa Pratta chronicles her years working undercover in Big Pharma.

    June 3, 2025  By Lisa Pratta
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    Searching for the Elusive Stephanie St. Clair, New York's "Madame Queen"

    She was a towering figure of the Harlem underground. So why don't we know more about her today?

    June 3, 2025  By Mary Kay McBrayer
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    Rich Cohen on the Murder of Jennifer Dulos and His New Book, 'Murder in the Dollhouse'

    "[S]he misunderstood something about America, which is that the idyll isn't real. It's a kind of advertising."

    May 29, 2025  By Kevin Canfield
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    Michelle Young on Telling the Story of Rose Valland, the WWII Hero and "Art Spy"

    Valland risked her life to chronicle Nazi looting of Europe's treasures.

    May 14, 2025  By Morgan Leigh Davies
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