• Features

    A Brief History of 1970s Disaster Movies

    The special effects were sometimes lacking, but the stars sure turned out for these thrillers about things blowing up, catching fire, and falling apart.

    March 21, 2025  By Keith Roysdon
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    The Role of Family Secrets in Crime Novels and Thrillers

    How family histories and secrets serve as catalysts for criminal behavior and plot development.

    March 21, 2025  By January Gilchrist
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    Four Mystery Novels That Explore Legacy

    On the power of crime fiction in "examining the world of legacy and what we leave in our wake"

    March 21, 2025  By Benjamin Bradley
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    Detections and Digressions:
    A Close Reading of P.D. James’ Devices and Desires

    James set out to capture British society more broadly than her predecessors, yet her novels had more in common with the Golden Age than she ever cared to admit

    March 20, 2025  By Curtis Evans
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    Joshua Hammer on Victorian London and the Great Race to Solve the Mysteries of Writing

    In Hammer's new book, he chronicles an era when archaeologists were stars and the public followed the quest to decipher Assyrian script.

    March 20, 2025  By Kevin Canfield
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    Golden Age Detectives in Love

    Celebrating the love lives of Lord Peter Wimsey, Harriet Vane, Roderick Alleyn, Albert Campion, and more.

    March 20, 2025  By Rosanne Limoncelli
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    Sherlock Holmes
    Vs. the French

    On Holmes's smack-talk about French detectives

    March 19, 2025  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Elon Green on the 1980s Police Brutality Case That Brought New York's Art Scene Together In Protest

    In 1983, 25-year-old graffiti artist Michael Stewart died after a brutal police beating. Artists, musicians, and East Village denizens soon united in outrage.

    March 19, 2025  By James Polchin
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    Science Fiction, Locked Room Mysteries, and the Joy of Literary Games

    Olivia Waite on rewriting the rules of the universe and solving a mystery in space

    March 19, 2025  By Olivia Waite
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    Writing a Character Through a Psychotic Breakdown

    Nicci French on the delicate task of an extreme psychological event.

    March 19, 2025  By Nicci French
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