Fiona Barton on Women Journalists in Crime Fiction

Fiona Barton on Women Journalists in Crime Fiction

Relentless, ingenious, and sometimes morally murky.

By Fiona Barton | August 27, 2024

Forgive, but Don't Forget: On Redemption in Crime Fiction

Forgive, but Don't Forget: On Redemption in Crime Fiction

"Forgiveness is not about forgetting; it is about understanding."

By Adam Mitzner | August 27, 2024

Love Kills the Demon: 30 Years of Natural Born Killers

Love Kills the Demon: 30 Years of Natural Born Killers

Looking back at the controversial reception and tangled legacy of the blood-soaked 1994 film.

By Martyn Conterio | August 26, 2024

Dark Desert Highway: My Favorite (Scary) Road Trips In Literature

Dark Desert Highway: My Favorite (Scary) Road Trips In Literature

Anna Downes goes on a winding journey through the best horror novels set on the road

By Anna Downes | August 26, 2024

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

By CrimeReads | August 26, 2024

Philadelphia: Plenty of Crime Fiction, Not So Much Brotherly Love

Philadelphia: Plenty of Crime Fiction, Not So Much Brotherly Love

Crime and the City visits Philadelphia.

By Paul French | August 26, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Stations
  • West of Loveland
  • Castles: A Fortified History of the World
  • Sweet Pea
  • The Pen: A Human History
  • Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?
  • Gloria Don't Speak
  • The Heights
  • The King Under the Mountain: In Search of J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Just a Shot Away: Martin Scorsese's Life in Film

This Summer in Horror Movies

By Olivia Rutigliano | August 23, 2024

The Best Debut Novels Out This Month: August 2024

By CrimeReads | August 23, 2024

An Ode to Charles Willeford

By Michael Ledwidge | August 23, 2024

Criminally Beautiful: Crime Novels with a Focus on Nature

Criminally Beautiful: Crime Novels with a Focus on Nature

"Nature can be a helpful accomplice or a wicked adversary."

By Ayla Rose | August 23, 2024

Of Psychopaths and CEOs

Of Psychopaths and CEOs

On the rise of entrepreneurs who act like "Greek gods—mercurial, sometimes destructive, and murkily in control of our lives."

By Elisabeth Eaves | August 22, 2024

Ludicrous But Memorable: Agatha Christie’s <em>The Big Four</em>

Ludicrous But Memorable: Agatha Christie’s The Big Four

Curtis Evans on the least-well-liked of Christie's Poirot novels

By Curtis Evans | August 22, 2024

My First Thriller: John Gilstrap

My First Thriller: John Gilstrap

Lightning and serendipity. The rejections never stopped, nor did the money.

By Rick Pullen | August 22, 2024

William Boyle on Discovering Donna Masini and a Great 'Italian-American-Recovering-Catholic-from-Brooklyn' Novel

William Boyle on Discovering Donna Masini and a Great 'Italian-American-Recovering-Catholic-from-Brooklyn' Novel

Boyle and Polly Stewart revisit Masini's intense, obsessive 'About Yvonne'

By Polly Stewart | August 22, 2024

Kailee Pedersen: In Praise of the Difficult Women of East Asian Literature

Kailee Pedersen: In Praise of the Difficult Women of East Asian Literature

A list of books featuring characters whose "willingness to transgress...can be both horrifying and thrilling"

By Kailee Pederson | August 21, 2024

On Choice, Chance, and Circumstance in Crime Fiction

On Choice, Chance, and Circumstance in Crime Fiction

Some decisions we make. Some are made for us. Fiction needs to acknowledge what we can (and can't) change.

By James Wade | August 21, 2024

Page 122 of 477

  • Support Us!

  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member