• New Nonfiction

    How a Team of Ambitious Crooks in 1960s Montreal Planned the Biggest Bank Heist Anyone Had Ever Seen

    In 1961, Montreal was the bank robbery capital of North America. A team of criminals wanted to plan the perfect caper.

    March 22, 2023  By Andrew Amelinckx
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    The Mysterious Death of a D.C. Power Broker

    During the Harding Administration, Jess Smith had the ear of every politician in town, especially the crooked ones.

    March 21, 2023  By Nathan Masters
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    Uncovering the Grave Sins of a Catholic Orphanage in Vermont

    A journalist and survivors reckon with a brutal reality.

    March 21, 2023  By Christine Kenneally
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    Portrait of a 1920's Midwife, Who Was Also the Leader of a Murder Ring

    In a rural farming region in what is now Hungary, a group of women banded together in a strange enterprise.

    March 20, 2023  By Patti McCracken
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    The First Victim of Black Bart, the Old West’s Greatest Stage Robber

    A look inside the first foray of the Old West's gentleman bandit.

    March 14, 2023  By John Boessenecker
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    The Invention of the Polygraph, and Law Enforcement's Long Search for a 'Lie Detector'

    In the basement offices of the Berkeley police, the experiments began...

    March 8, 2023  By Amit Katwala
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    The Ballad of Cary Grant's Suit in North by Northwest

    It's more than a suit. It's the star of the movie, and a perfectly indestructible cultural force.

    March 7, 2023  By Todd McEwen
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    The Birth of Superman: How Two Jewish Kids in 1930's Cleveland Altered the Course of American Pop Culture

    Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were nerdy, poor, often cold, and not very good at school. But they had a dream.

    February 16, 2023  By Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler
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    The Sinking of the Gloucester: The Shipwreck That Made 17th Century England Tremble

    A new account of the notorious wreck that killed the heir to the controversial English throne and hundreds of sailors.

    February 15, 2023  By Nigel Pickford
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    Why Does the Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe's Death Still Haunt Us?

    Few American writers have been read so widely for so long. And for many, Poe's death is inextricable from his fiction.

    February 14, 2023  By Mark Dawidziak
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