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The past is never dead. Especially in a good crime novel.

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We can't reconcile the worst actions of those we love with our love for them. Nor should we try.

On the Trail of Hollywood's Stolen Oscars

Olivia Rutigliano navigates the strange, semi-secret marketplace for Hollywood's most coveted statues.

My Uncle, The Librarian-Spy

In 1943, a Harvard librarian was quietly recruited by the OSS to save the scattered books of Europe.

Concrete Jungle: Nairobi's Unique Brand of Noir

In a city of the displaced, searching for crime fiction is an act of excavation.

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Rachel Louise Snyder on domestic violence, preventable homicide, and her work of nonfiction, No Visible Bruises

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The strange, unlikely events in 1969 that set Robert Towne on a course to write one of the greatest films ever made.

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