• New Nonfiction

    When Kurt Vonnegut Met Norman Mailer in Cape Cod's Legendary "Helltown"

    Provincetown was a place of enchantment, light, and art. But there was a dark side to the literary life there, too.

    July 12, 2022  By Casey Sherman
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    Boris Nayfeld, the Jewish Gangster-Survivor, and the Birth of the Russian Mob in Brooklyn

    Douglas Century visits with the last of the original Brighton Beach mob bosses.

    July 6, 2022  By Douglas Century
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    Ruja Ignatova: The Crypto Mogul Scam Artist Who Vanished into Thin Air

    In 2016, she appeared in front of a rapturous crowd at Wembley Stadium, promising riches. By 2019, she was on the run.

    July 1, 2022  By Jamie Barlett
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    Mussolini's Son-in-Law Kept a Diary – And It Put Him Right in the Crosshairs of Hitler and the Nazi Spy Apparatus

    Galeazzo Ciano was Italy's foreign minister, a witness to key events in history. And he was writing it all down.

    June 21, 2022  By Tilar J. Mazzeo
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    The Birth of the Hardy Boys

    Leslie McFarlane, who wrote under the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon, explains how the brothers started solving mysteries and why they were always eating meals.

    June 14, 2022  By Leslie McFarlane
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    Furry Friends and Fiendish Plotting: On Animals In Detective Fiction

    "Animals play an extraordinarily wide variety of roles in crime stories. They may be victims, witnesses, even detectives."

    June 13, 2022  By Martin Edwards
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    How the CIA's Cuba Debacles Brought the Future Watergate Conspirators Together

    Jefferson Morley on the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs, the CIA's evolving plans in Cuba, and the people the Agency brought together.

    June 9, 2022  By Jefferson Morley
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    Monstrosity Is in the Eye of the Beholder

    "Monsters are our mirrors: in them, we see who we hope we are not, in order to understand who we are."

    June 9, 2022  By Ellen Datlow
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    The Mysterious Case of the CIA's Man in Moscow

    Alexander Ogorodnik was recruited in a Turkish bath in Bogotá, Colombia. Then, he was summoned back to Moscow.

    June 8, 2022  By Howard Blum
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    James Patterson Remembers His First Literary Party, Where James Baldwin Fought Norman Mailer

    "They were arguing loudly, fists clenched, looking like they were ready to rumble. The bedroom had become a pint-size boxing ring."

    June 7, 2022  By James Patterson
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