• New Nonfiction

    The Birth of Salon Kitty, Wartime Berlin's Premier Brothel and Nazi Spy Trap

    How Nazi leadership took their own twisted ideas about sex and applied them to domestic espionage.

    July 14, 2023  By Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner and Dr. Julia Schrammel
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    How Truman Capote Was Destroyed by His Own Masterpiece

    Inside a New Volume Reproducing the Original Manuscript
    of In Cold Blood

    July 10, 2023  By Ebs Burnough
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    The Bizarre Story of the 'Cowboy Mutiny'

    In 1902, Captain Robert Peattie was attacked aboard the Leicester Castle by a disgruntled sailor, who then killed the ship’s 2nd mate before escaping with two others on a flimsy raft. The Captain assumed the men had soon drowned in the South Pacific until he was called to America, with four bullets still in his body, to identify a suspect living as an Arizona Sheriff. 

    July 6, 2023  By Nathan Ward
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    Sarah Weinman on James Baldwin, the Atlanta Child Murders, and the Evolution of True Crime Writing

    A new nonfiction anthology shows the range and depth of today's true crime writing.

    July 5, 2023  By Sarah Weinman
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    The Metropol Hotel: A Brief History of Moscow's Legendary (and Notorious) Hotel

    It was a center for culture, commerce, dissolution, disenchantment, spies, foreigners, and revolutionaries.

    July 5, 2023  By Alan Philps
    0

    Mark O'Connell on Walking Around Dublin Looking for a Murderer

    Malcolm Macarthur didn't talk to the press. So this would have to be something different.

    June 30, 2023  By Kevin Canfield
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    New Orleans Bounce and the Rise of Cash Money Records

    How the Williams Brothers came up through the streets and founded a record label icon.

    June 30, 2023  By Seth Ferranti
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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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    The Private Investigator and the Hollywood Con Queen

    Somebody was posing as a famous producer and luring people into myterious international projects—but why?

    June 15, 2023  By Scott C. Johnson
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    On the Literary Roots of Die Hard

    Nick de Semlyen Traces the Road from Nothing Lasts Forever to "Yippee-ki-yay, motherf*cker"

    June 7, 2023  By Nick de Semlyen
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