New Nonfiction

Hitchcock, The Voyeur: Why Rear Window Remains the Director's Definitive Film

Hitchcock was a master of obsessive looking and daydreamed about filming acts of sexual voyeurism. In Rear Window, he found a new vision.

April 13, 2021  By Edward White
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How the Jazz Age's Most Notorious Gangster Couple Got Ready For a Heist

Meet Tiger Girl and Kid Candy, in the days before a heist.

April 12, 2021  By Glenn Stout
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On The Voynich Manuscript, the Most Indecipherable Coded Text Ever Discovered

In 1912, a Polish rare book dealer found a manuscript written in a unique language. To this day, it has yet to be deciphered.

April 7, 2021  By Edward Brooke-Hitching
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Seven True Crime Books You Should Read This Month

A look at the month's best new nonfiction crime.

March 26, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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The Murder That Stunned Gangland Philadelphia

Hughie McLoon was a beloved figure on the streets of Philly, but that didn't save him from a stray bullet. Decades later, the question remains: who was the real target?

March 25, 2021  By Allen Abel
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Murder Tourism in Middle America: The World of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood

Notes from a road trip to Holcomb, Kansas, where Capote once chronicled the murder of the Clutter family.

March 17, 2021  By Justin St. Germain
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Lolita isn't a love story. It's a gothic horror novel.

"Like Tom Ripley and Patrick Bateman—and Count Dracula and Hannibal Lecter—Humbert fascinates mainly because of the chasm between his sophisticated urbanity and his brutal rapaciousness."

March 16, 2021  By Christina Baker Kline
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On Poisonings, Serial Killers, Mass Murderers, and Other Symbols of the Zeitgeist

Why do some crimes become media sensations and cultural touchstones, while others more horrifying fade into obscurity?

March 11, 2021  By Harold Schechter
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The Invention of Murder: How the Ancient Romans Codified Their Bizarre Views on Murder

The Romans took a pragmatic (and utterly horrifying) approach when it came to determining liability for killing and injury.

March 10, 2021  By Emma Southon
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Why Just About Every Country Seems to Have a Favorite Scam

The "Canadian Paradox" and the economic geography of fraud, as explained by an economist and author.

March 9, 2021  By Dan Davies
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