• New Nonfiction

    How a "Collective Madness" in 18th Century France Led to Financial Ruin and a Scheme to Lock Up Women and Ship Them Into Exile

    Paris, 1719: After a financial panic sweeps the nation, a decision is made—convicts will be sent to work the swamps of Louisiana.

    April 19, 2022  By Joan deJean
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    Poison, Adultery, Scandal, and Murder: The Wild Lives of Journalists in 1890's San Francisco

    Mark Arsenault on the scandals that would eventually unite two journalists in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.

    April 12, 2022  By Mark Arsenault
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    Investigating the Cold Case That Inspired Twin Peaks

    A trip to upstate New York, where Mark Frost once heard stories of an unsolved murder from the early 1900s.

    April 6, 2022  By Mark T. Givens and David Bushman
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    Forget Frankenstein. It's Time To Read The Mummy!

    Lisa Tuttle on The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, arguably the first novel to use now-common scifi tropes.

    April 5, 2022  By Lisa Tuttle
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    The Fugitive Who Conned His Way Into the Footsteps of Alexander the Great – and the Quest for His Lost Cities

    Alexander's great city had vanished. One British East India Company deserter was determined to find it.

    April 5, 2022  By Edmund Richardson
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    The Best New Crime Nonfiction Books: February and March 2022

    The Bloody Benders, the search for the Zodiac, an accidental private eye, and more.

    March 29, 2022  By CrimeReads 
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    The Conversation: Coppola's Paranoid Classic and the "Era of the Listening Device"

    Brian Hochman on the 1974 wiretap thriller that captured the rise of a surveillance society.

    March 22, 2022  By Brian Hochman
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    The Bizarre, Self-Incriminating Confession of Pam Hupp

    On a strange incident in the true story that forms the basis for the show The Thing About Pam.

    March 18, 2022  By Charles Bosworth Jr. and Joel J. Schwartz
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    People Have Always Told Me Their Secrets. That's Why I Became A Private Investigator.

    Erika Krouse on having the kind of face that spurs others to reveal their fears, anxieties, and darkest revelations.

    March 18, 2022  By Erika Krouse
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    What Life Was Like for an Undercover Federal Agent Prospecting with the Pagans, the Outlaw Motorcycle Club

    Ken Croke was an experienced undercover federal agent—and the first to infiltrate the Pagans.

    March 16, 2022  By Ken Croke and Dave Wedge
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