New Nonfiction

The Femme Fatale: A Brief History of Beauty as a Surprisingly Effective Legal Defense

History teaches us there are five rules to getting away with murder.

February 25, 2020  By Laura James
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A Modern-Day Explorer, a Costa Rican Jungle, and the Search for a Lost Son

Roman Dial's son hiked into the jungle and never returned. Dial launched an incredible years-long search for answers.

February 19, 2020  By Roman Dial
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How the Earliest Crime Scene Investigators Identified Murder Victims

A hundred years ago, a 'criminalist' deciphers the story behind a murder from a single ear.

February 11, 2020  By Kate Winkler Dawson
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The Life and Legend of
Calamity Jane

Martha Jane Canary was a nonconformist icon of the old West. She was also a talkative, tall-tale-telling alcoholic in the right place at the right time to make herself a legend.

February 11, 2020  By Karen R. Jones
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Printing Novels in the Gulag

How Soviet prisoners turned to 19th century detective fiction to while away the long hours.

February 10, 2020  By Varlam Shalamov
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Edgar Rice Burroughs and the City of Los Angeles

Inside Burroughs' prescient novel of harassment and Hollywood.

February 7, 2020  By Steph Cha
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My Uncle, The Librarian-Spy

In 1943, a Harvard librarian was quietly recruited by the OSS to save the scattered books of Europe.

February 5, 2020  By Kathy Peiss
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How Raymond Chandler and the Tate-LaBianca Murders Inspired the Making of Chinatown

The strange, unlikely events in 1969 that set Robert Towne on a course to write one of the greatest films ever made.

February 4, 2020  By Sam Wasson
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The Noir Poetry and Doomed Romanticism of Cornell Woolrich

Illuminating the lost classic "Waltz into Darkness"

January 8, 2020  By Wallace Stroby
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Get Radcliff!: The Search for Black Pulp's Forgotten Author

Gary Phillips on the trail of Roosevelt Mallory, who helped revolutionize 1970s pulp fiction, then disappeared.

December 10, 2019  By Gary Phillips
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