• New Nonfiction

    Why Dolores Hitchens' Less-Than-Glamorous Detective Is the Quiet Hero We Need

    "[James Sader] fumbles through both novels without the benefit of any special charisma or genius. What he does have are the plain, well-worn tools of integrity and tenacity..."

    July 12, 2021  By Steph Cha
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    Sunny Palm Springs Is A Perfect Setting for Noir

    "On a steamy summer day, the residential streets are absent of people and can possess an unsettling quiet. Where is everyone?"

    July 8, 2021  By Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
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    How Voltaire Helped Spread the Legend of Europe's Most Famous Prisoner, The Man in the Iron Mask

    In 18th century Europe, there was no greater conspiracy theory than the one surrounding "L'homme au masque de fer"

    July 8, 2021  By Josephine Wilkinson
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    Inside the Fiction Group in a Maximum-Security Psychiatric Hospital

    "They’d talk about what ward they were on, their security level, the medication they were taking, and how long they’d been at Perkins, but I never heard a patient ask another patient about their crime."

    July 7, 2021  By Mikita Brottman
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    The Women Who Became Sex Radicals and Changed the Course of American History

    Ida Craddock and her fellow free lovers took on Anthony Comstock and the patriarchy. Why has history mostly forgotten them?

    July 6, 2021  By Amy Sohn
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    The Lost History of Britain's Secret, Wildly Innovative Machine Built to Break Hitler's Prize Codes

    In the same secret complex where Alan Turing was designing Enigma, there was another, vastly more complex code-breaking machine that would help turn the war.

    June 25, 2021  By David A. Price
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    Five True Crime Books You Should Read This Month

    A look at the month's best new nonfiction crime.

    June 24, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    For Lack of an Ending: How the 1970 Death of a Young Iowa Woman Became a Generations-Spanning Search for Truth

    Katherine Dykstra first learned about the death of 18-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling from her mother-in-law. The case file would come to consume her, but why?

    June 23, 2021  By Katherine Dykstra
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    How the Banning of Joyce's Ulysses Led to "The Grandest Obscenity Case in the History of Law and Literature"

    Morris Ernst knew he could win the case to "liberate" Joyce's famously banned novel. So he found a publisher, took a cut of the royalties, and had a copy sent by boat to America.

    June 22, 2021  By Samantha Barbas
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    The Mississippi Farmer Who Helped Take Down the Jones County Klan

    Tom Landrum was strongly opposed to joining the KKK—that is, until an FBI agent asked him to infiltrate the organization.

    June 22, 2021  By Curtis Wilkie
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