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Inside the Fiction Group in a Maximum-Security Psychiatric Hospital
"They’d talk about what ward they were on, their security level, the medication they were taking, and how long they’d been at Perkins, but I never heard a patient ask another patient about their crime."
By
Mikita Brottman
| July 7, 2021
The Women Who Became Sex Radicals and Changed the Course of American History
Ida Craddock and her fellow free lovers took on Anthony Comstock and the patriarchy. Why has history mostly forgotten them?
By
Amy Sohn
| July 6, 2021
The Lost History of Britain's Secret, Wildly Innovative Machine Built to Break Hitler's Prize Codes
In the same secret complex where Alan Turing was designing Enigma, there was another, vastly more complex code-breaking machine that would help turn the war.
By
David A. Price
| June 25, 2021
Five True Crime Books You Should Read This Month
A look at the month's best new nonfiction crime.
By
CrimeReads
| June 24, 2021
For Lack of an Ending: How the 1970 Death of a Young Iowa Woman Became a Generations-Spanning Search for Truth
Katherine Dykstra first learned about the death of 18-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling from her mother-in-law. The case file would come to consume her, but why?
By
Katherine Dykstra
| June 23, 2021
How the Banning of Joyce's
Ulysses
Led to "The Grandest Obscenity Case in the History of Law and Literature"
Morris Ernst knew he could win the case to "liberate" Joyce's famously banned novel. So he found a publisher, took a cut of the royalties, and had a copy sent by boat to America.
By
Samantha Barbas
| June 22, 2021
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
The Mississippi Farmer Who Helped Take Down the Jones County Klan
By
Curtis Wilkie
| June 22, 2021
The Early, Wild, Exploited, and Sometimes Radical Days of the Comic Book Industry in America
By
Paul S. Hirsch
| June 21, 2021
Inside New Jersey's Notorious Prison for Women, Life Carries on for Krystal Riordan
By
Stephanie Dickinson
| June 18, 2021
Asian-American Spies Played Critical Roles in World War Two—They Were Also Under Constant Suspicion
A new study of three men and a tangled web of subversion, sabotage, and challenged loyalty.
By
Brian Masaru Hayashi
| June 16, 2021
“They Wanted Something for Nothing”: The Many Cons of the Yellow Kid
He was America's "greatest con man," self-proclaimed and widely celebrated. But what was the real story of Joseph Weil?
By
Dean Jobb
| June 15, 2021
The Eccentric, Unusual, and Layered Plotting of Dolores Hitchens'
The Cat Saw Murder
"Beneath the surface narrative, fast-moving as a stream, is a deeper sort of tragic wisdom..."
By
Joyce Carol Oates
| June 9, 2021
Why Ethel Rosenberg Matters
How did Ethel Rosenberg find the strength to bear her unjust persecution, and what can we learn from her today?
By
Anne Sebba
| June 8, 2021
The Most Daring POW Escape in History Began with the Construction of a Ouija Board
In Margalit Fox's new book, she tells the story of Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, who used spiritualism to cast a spell over their captors.
By
Margalit Fox
| June 4, 2021
Jack Ruby Is the Key to the Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theories. So Why Have We Forgotten About His Trial?
Conspiracy theories focus on Ruby and the supposed cover-up. But his Texas trial has mostly been lost to history.
By
Dan Abrams and David Fisher
| June 2, 2021
How Forensic Anthropologists Read the Skeletons of the Dead For Clues
"Never trust the pathologist on a TV show who says that the skeleton has been in the ground for eleven years. Utter twaddle."
By
Sue Black
| June 2, 2021
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