• New Nonfiction

    The Life and Legacy of James Ellroy

    Steven Powell's new work on Ellroy is an ambitious biography and a fascinating glimpse into the mind of "the Demon Dog."

    February 10, 2023  By Andrew Nette
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    The Year Ian Fleming Finally Started Writing His Novel

    Was he mostly just eager to avoid the looming responsibilities of real life?

    February 8, 2023  By John Higgs
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    On the 1968 Film Which Introduced the Trope of the "Black Guy Dies First"

    "Spider Baby helped introduce the modern horror concept of the Black character existing solely to die"

    February 7, 2023  By Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris
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    The Launch of a 19th Century Sex-Cult in Upstate New York

    John Humphrey Noyes was a reserved, shy young man – until he found religion and his own utopian, free-love, open marriage cult.

    February 7, 2023  By Susan Wels
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    The Best Critical Nonfiction / Biography Books of 2022

    John le Carré's letters, a reckoning with junk science, a nation of wiretappers, and more.

    December 13, 2022  By CrimeReads 
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    DNA Is the Best Tool Courts Have. That Doesn't Mean They Always Use it Accurately.

    Flaws with State Postconviction DNA-Testing Laws

    December 9, 2022  By Daniel S. Medwed
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    How Hollywood Made J. Edgar Hoover and the F.B.I. Into the Mythical "G-Men"

    Just like movie studios, the Bureau was starting a new era—and it was time for a public relations campaign.

    December 7, 2022  By Beverly Gage
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    Martin Edwards on Murder in the Basement, A Pioneering Work of Suspense

    "Berkeley’s cynicism and love of irony are much in evidence in Murder in the Basement, and so is his flair for taking the genre in new directions."

    December 6, 2022  By Martin Edwards
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    How Edgar Allan Poe Reinvented American Literature – and Science Writing

    John Tresch: "In that lurid myth, in those shocking images, that's where the field of experimentation for future literature lives."

    December 3, 2022  By Lisa Levy
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    Into the Combat Zone: Boston's Most Notorious Neighborhood

    The Zone was Boston's Times Square, a magnet for the city's most desperate and depraved.

    November 29, 2022  By Don Stradley
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