• New Nonfiction

    Searching for James M. Cain's Los Angeles

    Where have all the roadhouses gone?

    March 10, 2020  By Katie Orphan
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    Noir in the Land of Enchantment

    "Conquered and reconquered, colonized and commodified, Santa Fe understands—from historical genocide to the murders of family members—the intimacy of violence."

    March 5, 2020  By Ariel Gore
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    The Man Who Turned on the Here: On the Lam in Mexico with Ken Kesey

    Robert Stone recounts a visit to Kesey's fugitive camp, an encounter with a Mexican agent, and a long discussion about drugs and life.

    March 3, 2020  By Robert Stone
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    A Brief History of Sex and Espionage

    How lust, emotional intimacy, and honeypots influence spy games and shape the world order.

    February 28, 2020  By Michael Smith
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    A Brief History of
    After-Hours Clubs

    How new music, new drugs, and new communities sprang up in the legal gray zone known as the 'after-hours club.'

    February 26, 2020  By Terry Williams
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    The Femme Fatale: A Brief History of Beauty as a Surprisingly Effective Legal Defense

    History teaches us there are five rules to getting away with murder.

    February 25, 2020  By Laura James
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    A Modern-Day Explorer, a Costa Rican Jungle, and the Search for a Lost Son

    Roman Dial's son hiked into the jungle and never returned. Dial launched an incredible years-long search for answers.

    February 19, 2020  By Roman Dial
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    How the Earliest Crime Scene Investigators Identified Murder Victims

    A hundred years ago, a 'criminalist' deciphers the story behind a murder from a single ear.

    February 11, 2020  By Kate Winkler Dawson
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    The Life and Legend of
    Calamity Jane

    Martha Jane Canary was a nonconformist icon of the old West. She was also a talkative, tall-tale-telling alcoholic in the right place at the right time to make herself a legend.

    February 11, 2020  By Karen R. Jones
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    Printing Novels in the Gulag

    How Soviet prisoners turned to 19th century detective fiction to while away the long hours.

    February 10, 2020  By Varlam Shalamov
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