New Nonfiction

What Dostoevsky Learned About Freedom and Murder From His Fellow Convicts in Siberia

Throughout his time in a Siberian prison camp, Dostoevsky was observing life and making secret notes for his future masterpiece.

November 16, 2021  By Kevin Birmingham
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The Forgotten History of the Brutal, Internecine Battles of the American Revolution

The American Revolution was the country's first civil war, pitting neighbors against one another and dividing families.

November 12, 2021  By H.W. Brands
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Locusta of Gaul: Rome's Imperial Poisoner and Possibly the World's First Serial Killer

Her life began in the countryside. A skill with poisons brought her to the heart of the empire.

November 2, 2021  By Jennifer Wright
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On Spiritualism and the Afterlife in Henry James' Turn of the Screw

"It is the very function of ghosts to undermine confidence—for good or ill—that the dead are truly set apart."

October 29, 2021  By Susan L. Mizruchi
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The Forgotten Story of a Polish Spy Whose Los Angeles Trial Was a Cold War Flashpoint

Marian Zacharski was much admired by American intelligence officers. His trial came at an auspicious moment.

October 26, 2021  By John Pomfret
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Tony Hillerman and the Invention of Jim Chee

Joe Leaphorn, older and sophisticated, needed a new foil—one younger, more interested in tradition, and more inquisitive.

October 14, 2021  By James McGrath Morris
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Reclaiming the Legacy of Nora May French, the Pioneering Poet Made Into a Femme Fatale by Mediocre Men and California Mythology

"One doesn’t die but becomes an unknown woman, one mutilated sheet of paper at a time."

October 12, 2021  By Catherine Prendergast
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When the Family Legacy Is Murder

Betty Frizzell wrestles with her Missouri family's history of violence and mental illness.

October 11, 2021  By Betty Frizzell
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The Birth of the CIA—And the Soviet Mole Who Had a Hand in Everything

At a dinner in London, 1946, Kim Philby hinted at an intriguing proposition: the complete merger of American and British intelligence.

October 7, 2021  By Michael Holzman
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The Boone Family, the Struggle for Kentucky, and the Kidnapping That Rocked Colonial America

In 1776, thirteen year-old Jemima Boone wandered away from her family's settlement and into one of the era's fiercest land disputes.

October 7, 2021  By Matthew Pearl
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