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Transformation and Transcendence in <br>1980s Body Horror

Transformation and Transcendence in
1980s Body Horror

On David Cronenberg, Clive Barker, and the embrace of the grotesque as a representation of lived experience.

By Darryl Jones | September 9, 2021

No One Has Ever Lived In The Past. So How Can Writers Accurately Represent History?

No One Has Ever Lived In The Past. So How Can Writers Accurately Represent History?

On The Challenges of Writing Historical Crime Fiction

By James R. Benn | September 9, 2021

Five Books that Examine the American Penal System

Five Books that Examine the American Penal System

Stories, mostly true, about the gritty, fraught, and devastating world of prisons

By Jen J. Danna | September 9, 2021

The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Nick Rennison on the early days of American detective fiction and the sleuths who competed with Sherlock Holmes for mystery readers.

By Nick Rennison | September 8, 2021

The 19th Century Women Who Wrote

The 19th Century Women Who Wrote "Weird" Stories and Refused to Pigeonholed by Genre

A new anthology collects horror and supernatural stories from some of the era's best storytellers.

By Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton | September 8, 2021

The Strange Story of a Dog, a Diamond Discovery, and the Fierce Rivalries of the Canadian Arctic

The Strange Story of a Dog, a Diamond Discovery, and the Fierce Rivalries of the Canadian Arctic

Thor was a husky lost in the Canadian Arctic. Or was he a spy from a rival diamond expedition?

By Matthew Hart | September 8, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

On the Enduring Appeal of the Marriage Thriller

By Alice Feeney | September 8, 2021

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads | September 7, 2021

The Dark Pleasures of School-Based Mysteries

By Vera Kurian | September 7, 2021

10 Crime Novels About The Cutthroat Business of Culture

10 Crime Novels About The Cutthroat Business of Culture

Go behind the scenes in these tales of love, murder and revenge among the glitterati.

By Helen Walsh | September 7, 2021

McIlvanney and Me: Ian Rankin Remembers the Man Who Created Tartan Noir

McIlvanney and Me: Ian Rankin Remembers the Man Who Created Tartan Noir

William McIlvanney's pitch black noirs, featuring Inspector Laidlaw's disturbing adventures in the Glasgow underworld, made Scotland into a world capital of crime fiction.

By Ian Rankin | September 7, 2021

Lisa Jewell on Craft, Inspiration, and Why She Needed to Write a Boarding School Murder Mystery

Lisa Jewell on Craft, Inspiration, and Why She Needed to Write a Boarding School Murder Mystery

More than twenty years later, Jewell still resists making any firm plans for her novels.

By Daneet Steffens | September 7, 2021

In <em>Only Murders in the Building</em>, a mystery isn't a mystery until it's a production

In Only Murders in the Building, a mystery isn't a mystery until it's a production

In the new series, three neighbors investigate a murder in their apartment building while making a true crime podcast about it.

By Olivia Rutigliano | September 3, 2021

All I Really Need to Know I Learned Covering Homicides

All I Really Need to Know I Learned Covering Homicides

Life lessons—gleaned from a few decades of reporting on crime and murder.

By Keith Roysdon | September 3, 2021

'The Way of the Gun’ Was a Nihilistic Rebuke To Everything Cool in Nineties Crime Cinema

'The Way of the Gun’ Was a Nihilistic Rebuke To Everything Cool in Nineties Crime Cinema

And it deserves a cult status of its own.

By Nick Kolakowski | September 3, 2021

The Puzzling Life and Uncertain Death of Heinrich Feldmann, A Spy in the First World War

The Puzzling Life and Uncertain Death of Heinrich Feldmann, A Spy in the First World War

The Neutral Netherlands spent WWI riddled with spies, secret agents, and deserters. Their stories are incomplete, and all the more fascinating for it.

By Anna Lee Huber | September 3, 2021

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