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New Nonfiction
The Man Who Turned on the Here: On the Lam in Mexico with Ken Kesey
Robert Stone recounts a visit to Kesey's fugitive camp, an encounter with a Mexican agent, and a long discussion about drugs and life.
By
Robert Stone
| March 3, 2020
A Brief History of Sex and Espionage
How lust, emotional intimacy, and honeypots influence spy games and shape the world order.
By
Michael Smith
| February 28, 2020
A Brief History of
After-Hours Clubs
How new music, new drugs, and new communities sprang up in the legal gray zone known as the 'after-hours club.'
By
Terry Williams
| February 26, 2020
The Femme Fatale: A Brief History of Beauty as a Surprisingly Effective Legal Defense
History teaches us there are five rules to getting away with murder.
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Laura James
| February 25, 2020
A Modern-Day Explorer, a Costa Rican Jungle, and the Search for a Lost Son
Roman Dial's son hiked into the jungle and never returned. Dial launched an incredible years-long search for answers.
By
Roman Dial
| February 19, 2020
How the Earliest Crime Scene Investigators Identified Murder Victims
A hundred years ago, a 'criminalist' deciphers the story behind a murder from a single ear.
By
Kate Winkler Dawson
| February 11, 2020
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The Life and Legend of
Calamity Jane
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Karen R. Jones
| February 11, 2020
Printing Novels in the Gulag
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Varlam Shalamov
| February 10, 2020
Edgar Rice Burroughs and the City of Los Angeles
By
Steph Cha
| February 7, 2020
My Uncle, The Librarian-Spy
In 1943, a Harvard librarian was quietly recruited by the OSS to save the scattered books of Europe.
By
Kathy Peiss
| February 5, 2020
How Raymond Chandler and the Tate-LaBianca Murders Inspired the Making of
Chinatown
The strange, unlikely events in 1969 that set Robert Towne on a course to write one of the greatest films ever made.
By
Sam Wasson
| February 4, 2020
The Noir Poetry and Doomed Romanticism of Cornell Woolrich
Illuminating the lost classic "Waltz into Darkness"
By
Wallace Stroby
| January 8, 2020
Get Radcliff!: The Search for Black Pulp's Forgotten Author
Gary Phillips on the trail of Roosevelt Mallory, who helped revolutionize 1970s pulp fiction, then disappeared.
By
Gary Phillips
| December 10, 2019
Blowback: Late 1960s and ’70s Pulp and Popular Fiction about the Vietnam War
When soldiers returned home, a new wave of crime fiction captured the trauma—and the moral abyss.
By
Andrew Nette
| December 3, 2019
Rediscovering Dorothy B. Hughes' Brutal Hollywood Take-Down,
Dread Journey
Sarah Weinman reflects on the outsized contributions and little-known gems of a giant of noir.
By
Sarah Weinman
| December 3, 2019
The Sixth Victim: A Murder in Small-Town Japan
Its motto was “the smallest village with the brightest future”—until the massacre.
By
Shōko Egawa
| December 3, 2019
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