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"The story of Eden, and how it influences my work, is not the story of a snake in a tree, but the story of what we are doing to the tree – what we are doing to the Garden."

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Megan Abbott, S.A. Cosby, Laura Lippman, and Ace Atkins share their thoughts with Polly Stewart.

"All doomsday stories essentially ask the same central dramatic question: at the end of it all, what really mattered?"

Britain's legendarily cloistered intelligence agencies are making an effort toward openness and inclusivity. What are we to make of it?

"[O]bsession, infidelity, betrayal, seduction, and murder..."

120 mysteries, thrillers, and crime novels to read all summer long.

"The story of Eden, and how it influences my work, is not the story of a snake in a tree, but the story of what we are doing to the tree – what we are doing to the Garden."

Nancy Dougherty on the uncanny experience of traveling to the Baltic Sea to interview the wife of Reinhard Heydrich.

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"More than ever, people of color are fighting back to reclaim what has been stolen from us."

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