• New Nonfiction

    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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    April's Best Nonfiction Crime Books

    A new study of Hitchcock's films, the tragic life of an heiress, and a murder at the mission.

    April 16, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    How Gilded Age Corruption Produced the Biggest, Maddest Gold Rush in History

    America was on edge, inequity was bringing about class warfare. And then there was news of gold in Alaska.

    April 14, 2021  By Brian Castner
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    Hitchcock, The Voyeur: Why Rear Window Remains the Director's Definitive Film

    Hitchcock was a master of obsessive looking and daydreamed about filming acts of sexual voyeurism. In Rear Window, he found a new vision.

    April 13, 2021  By Edward White
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    How the Jazz Age's Most Notorious Gangster Couple Got Ready For a Heist

    Meet Tiger Girl and Kid Candy, in the days before a heist.

    April 12, 2021  By Glenn Stout
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    On The Voynich Manuscript, the Most Indecipherable Coded Text Ever Discovered

    In 1912, a Polish rare book dealer found a manuscript written in a unique language. To this day, it has yet to be deciphered.

    April 7, 2021  By Edward Brooke-Hitching
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    Seven True Crime Books You Should Read This Month

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

    March 26, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    The Murder That Stunned Gangland Philadelphia

    Hughie McLoon was a beloved figure on the streets of Philly, but that didn't save him from a stray bullet. Decades later, the question remains: who was the real target?

    March 25, 2021  By Allen Abel
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    Murder Tourism in Middle America: The World of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood

    Notes from a road trip to Holcomb, Kansas, where Capote once chronicled the murder of the Clutter family.

    March 17, 2021  By Justin St. Germain
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