• New Nonfiction

    Inside the Wild Hunt for Forrest Fenn's Hidden Treasure

    Somewhere in the New Mexico mountains there's a treasure. The map is an elaborate poem, written by an eccentric millionaire.

    May 18, 2021  By Daniel Barbarisi
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    The "Three-Dimensional Game-Board" of Agatha Christie's Country Houses

    From family estates to Christie's wartime residences, a look at the homes that inspired her settings.

    May 11, 2021  By Phyllis Richardson
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    George Blake and the Prison Escape Story Hitchcock Spent The Last Decade of His Life Trying to Make

    The spy who escaped prison and captured popular imagination.

    May 11, 2021  By Simon Kuper
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    The Cursed History of San Francisco's Emmanuel Baptist Church

    The church's first two pastors killed themselves—and that was before the double murder in 1895 that sealed the building's reputation as haunted.

    May 5, 2021  By Bob Calhoun
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    Towards A New Understanding of Psychosis and Violence

    We live in a world that conditions us to fear mental illness instead of to treat it. The consequences of this approach are deadly.

    April 28, 2021  By Vince Granata
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    On the Dognapping Gangs that Terrorized Victorian London, and the Poet who Fought Back

    The tale of the most dramatic dognappinng of the 19th century, which sealed a romance and changed literary history.

    April 27, 2021  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    How Anti-Catholic Propaganda, Racism, and One Man's Paranoid Obsessions Helped Form Oregon's Founding Myths

    Henry Spalding was a sometimes missionary regarded by many as a lunatic. His lies about a frontier killing helped shape a new state.

    April 27, 2021  By Blaine Harden
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    Hercule Poirot’s First Appearances on Television and Radio

    While stage and screen appearances brought Poirot to international prominence, his arrival on television and radio by the late 1930s signified a new level of public adoration.

    April 21, 2021  By Mark Aldridge
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    How One Woman's Forced Sterilization Led to a Mayhem Charge and Exposed a Secret World of Medical Atrocities

    In early 20th century California, forced sterilizations were an unnervingly widespread, if mostly secret, practice.

    April 20, 2021  By Audrey Clare Farley
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    Fraud and Spiritualism Between the Wars: A Study of Two Hoaxes

    In the 1930s, famed spiritual investigator and ghost hunter Nandor Fodor found himself disappointed by several hoaxes.

    April 20, 2021  By Kate Summerscale
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