• New Nonfiction

    A Killing in North Carolina That Still Haunts the Survivors, 50 Years Later

    They were hippies from Clearwater looking for a place to camp. Then the armed sheriff's deputies showed up.

    November 12, 2024  By Timothy Silver
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    The Making of the American West's Last Great Outlaw Hideouts

    Tom Clavin charts the history of Brown's Hole.

    October 29, 2024  By Tom Clavin
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    The Birth of Miss Marple—the Perpetual Spinster Detective at the Heart of Agatha Christie's Works

    Mark Aldridge on the creation of an iconic character.

    October 22, 2024  By Mark Aldridge
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    Anthony Bourdain on the Life and Legacy of a Cook: Typhoid Mary

    "Mary Mallon was a cook. And her story, first and foremost, is the story of a cook."

    October 15, 2024  By Anthony Bourdain
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    Matt Murphy on His Life as a Homicide Prosecutor

    In a new memoir, Murphy reflects on his career with the Orange County District Attorney.

    October 11, 2024  By John B. Valeri
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    A Brief History of the Rise of Horror in 19th Century America

    Gaslights and Shadows

    October 10, 2024  By Jeremy Dauber
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    Inside the Yakuza's Growing Empire of Crime in Cambodia

    In 2011, Japan cracked down on organized crime. The Yakuza promptly relocated to the Cambodian seaside.

    October 3, 2024  By Jake Adelstein
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    How to Get Arrested by an FBI SWAT Team After Infiltrating the KKK

    Joe Moore spent years as a confidential human source penetrating a highly dangerous, violent KKK group in Florida. Now it was time to take them down.

    October 2, 2024  By Joe Moore with Jon Land
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    Elyse Graham on the Librarian Spies of World War Two

    In her new book, Graham chronicles the exploits of librarians and academics who revolutionized intelligence work during WWII.

    September 25, 2024  By Morgan Leigh Davies
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    How Patricia Highsmith, Shirley Jackson, and Leigh Brackett Defined a Strand of Midcentury American Literature

    The three women, whose work is rarely read together, approached genre writing in ways that are still influencing writers today.

    September 25, 2024  By Ashley Lawson
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