• New Nonfiction

    Has the Mafia Ever Really Penetrated the White House?

    Eric Dezenhall on the mob's complicated place in the American imagination.

    January 16, 2025  By Eric Dezenhall
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    How to Write a True Crime Narrative with a Co-Author Who Has Been Dead For More Than 150 Years

    Kate Winkler Dawson on re-investigating the murder that inspired an American classic.

    January 7, 2025  By Kate Winkler Dawson
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    Martin Edwards Revisits E.C.R. Lorac's 1946 Opus, The Theft of the Iron Dogs

    Lorac's newly reissued work features a strong sense of place and evocative atmospherics

    December 6, 2024  By Martin Edwards
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    Willy Falcon, Scarface, and How 1980s Miami Cocaine Culture Infiltrated the National Imagination

    T.J. English on the rise of the narcosphere.

    December 3, 2024  By T.J. English
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    How the Modern History of Russia Is Explained by the Lives of Its Criminals

    In the new book 'Russia in Four Criminals,' Federico Varese lays out a compelling case for a new understanding of Russia and democracy.

    November 20, 2024  By Federico Varese
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    The Mystery of Wallis Simpson's Visit to Shanghai and Her Search for the Elusive “Hurry-Up” Divorce

    In the new book 'Her Lotus Year,' author Paul French chronicles the future Duchess of Windsor's sojourn through China.

    November 12, 2024  By Paul French
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    A Killing in North Carolina That Still Haunts the Survivors, 50 Years Later

    They were hippies from Clearwater looking for a place to camp. Then the armed sheriff's deputies showed up.

    November 12, 2024  By Timothy Silver
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    The Making of the American West's Last Great Outlaw Hideouts

    Tom Clavin charts the history of Brown's Hole.

    October 29, 2024  By Tom Clavin
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    The Birth of Miss Marple—the Perpetual Spinster Detective at the Heart of Agatha Christie's Works

    Mark Aldridge on the creation of an iconic character.

    October 22, 2024  By Mark Aldridge
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    Anthony Bourdain on the Life and Legacy of a Cook: Typhoid Mary

    "Mary Mallon was a cook. And her story, first and foremost, is the story of a cook."

    October 15, 2024  By Anthony Bourdain
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