• New Nonfiction

    America’s First Spy of World War II: Ernest Cuneo

    How A Nazi Plan to Blow up New York City Was Investigated by Churchill’s Spies at Rockefeller Center and Roosevelt's Trusted Advisor

    March 26, 2025  By Thomas Maier
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    James Whitfield Thomson on His Decades-Long Search for Answers to His Sister's Death

    The chronicle of a brother's investigation.

    March 25, 2025  By James Whitfield Thomson
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    Joshua Hammer on Victorian London and the Great Race to Solve the Mysteries of Writing

    In Hammer's new book, he chronicles an era when archaeologists were stars and the public followed the quest to decipher Assyrian script.

    March 20, 2025  By Kevin Canfield
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    The Last Days of Michael Stewart, a Young Black Artist of the East Village in the 1980s

    Read a passage from Elon Green's new book, 'The Man Nobody Killed'

    March 11, 2025  By Elon Green
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    The Murder Trial that Shook Gilded Age San Francisco

    Laura D. Fair was the talk of the booming city.

    March 11, 2025  By Gary Krist
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    How America Fell in Love with Helen Gibson, the Pioneer of Action Movies

    In the 1910's, Hollywood discovered a new star: the serial queen.

    February 18, 2025  By Mallory O'Meara
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    The Dangerous Decline of a New York City Neighborhood

    In the 1960s, East New York began down the road that would later earn it the title of the "Killing Fields."

    January 28, 2025  By Stacy Horn
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    The Mafia and Its Food: A Brief History of a Passionate Relationship

    Michael Cannell on the mafia's favorite pastime.

    January 17, 2025  By Michael Cannell
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    Has the Mafia Ever Really Penetrated the White House?

    Eric Dezenhall on the mob's complicated place in the American imagination.

    January 16, 2025  By Eric Dezenhall
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    How to Write a True Crime Narrative with a Co-Author Who Has Been Dead For More Than 150 Years

    Kate Winkler Dawson on re-investigating the murder that inspired an American classic.

    January 7, 2025  By Kate Winkler Dawson
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