New Nonfiction

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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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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