• Features

    Murder Tourism in Middle America: The World of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood

    Notes from a road trip to Holcomb, Kansas, where Capote once chronicled the murder of the Clutter family.

    March 17, 2021  By Justin St. Germain
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    Five Novels About Solving Crimes in Native Communities

    These books are about crimes. But they're also about laughter, love, loyalty, and healing.

    March 17, 2021  By Angeline Boulley
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    Gothic Fiction and the Deepest, Darkest Possibilities of Sibling Relationships

    From Wilkie Collins and Henry James down to today's masters, these authors explore the intense space between siblings.

    March 17, 2021  By Elizabeth Brooks
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    Lolita isn't a love story. It's a gothic horror novel.

    "Like Tom Ripley and Patrick Bateman—and Count Dracula and Hannibal Lecter—Humbert fascinates mainly because of the chasm between his sophisticated urbanity and his brutal rapaciousness."

    March 16, 2021  By Christina Baker Kline
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    On Keeping Chickens in the Literary Enclave of Oxford, Mississippi

    Melissa Ginsburg contemplates the meaning of community during lockdown, and delivers eggs to her neighbors.

    March 16, 2021  By Melissa Ginsburg
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    Forever Trespassing Into History: An Author's Reflections on Retelling Historical Episodes as Fiction

    In 1900, three lighthouse keepers disappeared from a post in the Outer Hebrides. It was a story Emma Stonex needed to tell.

    March 16, 2021  By Emma Stonex
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    How Reading Mystery Novels Made Me a Better Fantasy Writer

    Studying the craft behind a great mystery novel is a worthy endeavor for writers working in any genre.

    March 16, 2021  By Kim Neville
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    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

    March 15, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    Discover the Weird, Mythical, Mystical World of Fire Bones

    William Boyle on a new transmedia work steeped in noir and Deep South carnivalesque

    March 15, 2021  By William Boyle
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    How Marilyn Monroe's Death Ushered in a Dark New Era of Celebrity

    The death of a celebrity offers a chance to be a spectator, indulging in a kind of morbid curiosity bordering on fetishization.

    March 15, 2021  By Ava Barry
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