• New Nonfiction

    The Early, Wild, Exploited, and Sometimes Radical Days of the Comic Book Industry in America

    Paul S. Hirsch on the invention of a new art form and the renegades and rogues who went to work in its earliest shops.

    June 21, 2021  By Paul S. Hirsch
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    Inside New Jersey's Notorious Prison for Women, Life Carries on for Krystal Riordan

    "It’s a rule-bound world, a world where dance competitions and making birthday chili and rice for your girlfriend co-exist with fight blood on the floor."

    June 18, 2021  By Stephanie Dickinson
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    Asian-American Spies Played Critical Roles in World War Two—They Were Also Under Constant Suspicion

    A new study of three men and a tangled web of subversion, sabotage, and challenged loyalty.

    June 16, 2021  By Brian Masaru Hayashi
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    “They Wanted Something for Nothing”: The Many Cons of the Yellow Kid

    He was America's "greatest con man," self-proclaimed and widely celebrated. But what was the real story of Joseph Weil?

    June 15, 2021  By Dean Jobb
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    The Eccentric, Unusual, and Layered Plotting of Dolores Hitchens' The Cat Saw Murder

    "Beneath the surface narrative, fast-moving as a stream, is a deeper sort of tragic wisdom..."

    June 9, 2021  By Joyce Carol Oates
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    Why Ethel Rosenberg Matters

    How did Ethel Rosenberg find the strength to bear her unjust persecution, and what can we learn from her today?

    June 8, 2021  By Anne Sebba
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    The Most Daring POW Escape in History Began with the Construction of a Ouija Board

    In Margalit Fox's new book, she tells the story of Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, who used spiritualism to cast a spell over their captors.

    June 4, 2021  By Margalit Fox
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    Jack Ruby Is the Key to the Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theories. So Why Have We Forgotten About His Trial?

    Conspiracy theories focus on Ruby and the supposed cover-up. But his Texas trial has mostly been lost to history.

    June 2, 2021  By Dan Abrams and David Fisher
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    How Forensic Anthropologists Read the Skeletons of the Dead For Clues

    "Never trust the pathologist on a TV show who says that the skeleton has been in the ground for eleven years. Utter twaddle."

    June 2, 2021  By Sue Black
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    How Frigid Conditions and a Failed Execution in 17th Century England Pointed the Way To a Scientific Breakthrough

    In 1650, Anne Greene was publicly hanged and ruled dead. She was an early marvel of "suspended animation."

    June 1, 2021  By Philip Jaekl
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