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How Delaware Sold the Greatest, Most Insidious Financial Secrecy Tool the World Has Ever Known

How Delaware Sold the Greatest, Most Insidious Financial Secrecy Tool the World Has Ever Known

In the 1980s, Delaware officials went on a barnstorming tour of Asia. They were selling a new kind of secrecy.

By Casey Michel | November 23, 2021

November's Best Nonfiction Crime Books

November's Best Nonfiction Crime Books

Offshore exploits, Dostoevsky's murderer, and America's first civil war.

By CrimeReads | November 19, 2021

The Serrata del Marchante: From Spaghetti Western Set to Cowboy Theme Park

The Serrata del Marchante: From Spaghetti Western Set to Cowboy Theme Park

Sergio Leone filmed "For A Few Dollars More" in the Spanish desert, now a destination for tourists rather than filmmakers.

By Nick Hunt | November 19, 2021

The Bloomingdale Story: Read the Never-Before Published Patricia Highsmith Draft That Would Become <em>Carol</em> (<em>The Price of Salt</em>)

The Bloomingdale Story: Read the Never-Before Published Patricia Highsmith Draft That Would Become Carol (The Price of Salt)

A rare gem from Highsmith's newly released diaries and notebooks, with annotations from the author and her editor.

By Patricia Highsmith | November 16, 2021

What Dostoevsky Learned About Freedom and Murder From His Fellow Convicts in Siberia

What Dostoevsky Learned About Freedom and Murder From His Fellow Convicts in Siberia

Throughout his time in a Siberian prison camp, Dostoevsky was observing life and making secret notes for his future masterpiece.

By Kevin Birmingham | November 16, 2021

The Forgotten History of the Brutal, Internecine Battles of the American Revolution

The Forgotten History of the Brutal, Internecine Battles of the American Revolution

The American Revolution was the country's first civil war, pitting neighbors against one another and dividing families.

By H.W. Brands | November 12, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Locusta of Gaul: Rome's Imperial Poisoner and Possibly the World's First Serial Killer

By Jennifer Wright | November 2, 2021

On Spiritualism and the Afterlife in Henry James' Turn of the Screw

By Susan L. Mizruchi | October 29, 2021

The Forgotten Story of a Polish Spy Whose Los Angeles Trial Was a Cold War Flashpoint

By John Pomfret | October 26, 2021

Tony Hillerman and the Invention of Jim Chee

Tony Hillerman and the Invention of Jim Chee

Joe Leaphorn, older and sophisticated, needed a new foil—one younger, more interested in tradition, and more inquisitive.

By James McGrath Morris | October 14, 2021

Reclaiming the Legacy of Nora May French, the Pioneering Poet Made Into a Femme Fatale by Mediocre Men and California Mythology

Reclaiming the Legacy of Nora May French, the Pioneering Poet Made Into a Femme Fatale by Mediocre Men and California Mythology

"One doesn’t die but becomes an unknown woman, one mutilated sheet of paper at a time."

By Catherine Prendergast | October 12, 2021

When the Family Legacy Is Murder

When the Family Legacy Is Murder

Betty Frizzell wrestles with her Missouri family's history of violence and mental illness.

By Betty Frizzell | October 11, 2021

The Birth of the CIA—And the Soviet Mole Who Had a Hand in Everything

The Birth of the CIA—And the Soviet Mole Who Had a Hand in Everything

At a dinner in London, 1946, Kim Philby hinted at an intriguing proposition: the complete merger of American and British intelligence.

By Michael Holzman | October 7, 2021

The Boone Family, the Struggle for Kentucky, and the Kidnapping That Rocked Colonial America

The Boone Family, the Struggle for Kentucky, and the Kidnapping That Rocked Colonial America

In 1776, thirteen year-old Jemima Boone wandered away from her family's settlement and into one of the era's fiercest land disputes.

By Matthew Pearl | October 7, 2021

It's Time to Learn About the Lives of John Wayne Gacy's Victims—And Not Just the Labels Hung on Them

It's Time to Learn About the Lives of John Wayne Gacy's Victims—And Not Just the Labels Hung on Them

Gacy's victims were too often dismissed as runaways and hustlers.

By David Nelson | October 6, 2021

A Lover's Quarrel, A Dilapidated Mansion, and A Body in the Basement

A Lover's Quarrel, A Dilapidated Mansion, and A Body in the Basement

David Dominé nearly purchased a run-down Victorian home in Louisville, Kentucky. Years later, a body was discovered in the basement.

By David Dominé | October 5, 2021

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