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How Thomas Harris 'Found' His Iconic Serial Killer, Hannibal Lecter

How Thomas Harris 'Found' His Iconic Serial Killer, Hannibal Lecter

Back home in the Delta, Harris would go to write in a shotgun shack in the middle of a cotton field.

By Brian Raftery | February 10, 2026

How Agatha Christie Played the

How Agatha Christie Played the "Game-within-the-Game" in 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd'

The Queen of Crime played fair and played masterfully in her breakout classic.

By John Curran | January 27, 2026

"Skinhead capital of the world": The Racist Terrors of Orange County, California

An excerpt from "American Reich" by Eric Lichtblau

By Eric Lichtblau | January 6, 2026

The KGB Librarian Who Smuggled Soviet Secrets into the West

The KGB Librarian Who Smuggled Soviet Secrets into the West

An excerpt from "The Spy in the Archives: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB" by Gordon Corera

By Gordon Corera | January 6, 2026

How an Opponent of Capital Punishment Put a Serial Killer on Death Row

How an Opponent of Capital Punishment Put a Serial Killer on Death Row

An excerpt from Dick Harpootlian's "Dig Me a Grave: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Who Seduced the South"

By Dick Harpootlian | December 16, 2025

Why Harry Truman Didn't Trust the U.S. Military with Atomic Bombs

Why Harry Truman Didn't Trust the U.S. Military with Atomic Bombs

At a pivotal moment in the Cold War, the decision was made that the President would be ultimately responsible for atomic weapons.

By Alex Wellerstein | December 11, 2025

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Chasing the Memory of a Grandfather Who Faked His Own Death

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Eli Frankel: I Was the Last Person to Interview the Black Dahlia Murder Witness.

Eli Frankel: I Was the Last Person to Interview the Black Dahlia Murder Witness.

What she told me changes everything

By Eli Frankel | November 11, 2025

Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack the Ripper and the Fact and Fiction of Criminal Profiling

Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack the Ripper and the Fact and Fiction of Criminal Profiling

Rachel Corbett on the Efforts to Find One of History’s Most Gruesome Serial Killers

By Rachel Corbett | November 3, 2025

The Texas Murder Mystery That Launched Skip Hollandsworth Into a Life of Crime Writing

The Texas Murder Mystery That Launched Skip Hollandsworth Into a Life of Crime Writing

In an excerpt from the new book, 'She Kills,' Skip Hollandsworth remembers the hometown mystery he could never solve.

By Skip Hollandsworth | October 28, 2025

Show, Don't Tell: Donna Leon's Timeless Lessons for Well-Crafted Books

Show, Don't Tell: Donna Leon's Timeless Lessons for Well-Crafted Books

Leon analyzes Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer novels and finds new lessons for writers in their well-worn pages

By Donna Leon | August 28, 2025

Gregg Olsen On a Haunting Crime and The Snowballing Consequences of Trauma

Gregg Olsen On a Haunting Crime and The Snowballing Consequences of Trauma

Read an excerpt from Olsen's latest work of true crime, "Out of the Woods"

By Gregg Olsen | August 15, 2025

The Secret Committee That Persecuted Black and Gay People In the Name of Fighting Communism

The Secret Committee That Persecuted Black and Gay People In the Name of Fighting Communism

On Florida's hidden Cold War on Black and queer lives

By Robert B. Fieseler | July 3, 2025

Caitlin Rother on Letting Surprises Happen

Caitlin Rother on Letting Surprises Happen

In writing nonfiction, the research always takes you in a new direction.

By Caitlin Rother | June 24, 2025

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