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How the Banning of Joyce's Ulysses Led to "The Grandest Obscenity Case in the History of Law and Literature"

Morris Ernst knew he could win the case to "liberate" Joyce's famously banned novel. So he found a publisher, took a cut of the royalties, and had a copy sent by boat to America.

June 22, 2021  By Samantha Barbas
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The Best Books of the Year (So Far): Crime Fiction in 2021

CrimeReads editors select their favorite thrillers, mysteries, and crime novels of the year.

June 17, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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The Shadow Was Pulp Fiction's Original Pop Culture Phenomenon. Now, He's Mostly Forgotten. What Happened?

Before Perry Mason, Nero Wolfe, and Philip Marlowe, there was the crime-fighter who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men.

June 9, 2021  By Hector DeJean
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The Art of Balancing Multiple Mystery Series

J.A. Jance moves from one long-running series to another, and it turns out the characters sometimes have minds of their own.

June 4, 2021  By J.A. Jance
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Female Public Defenders Are Unsung Heroines. It Is Long Past Time to Change That.

"The few times that court-appointed advocates for the indigent and despised are portrayed as heroes, they are almost always men."

May 11, 2021  By Lara Bazelon
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The Search for China's Serial Killers

Reliable figures are hard to come by, but recent arrests indicate that China has an unknown number of American-style serial killers.

May 6, 2021  By Brian Klingborg
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To Tap Into The Gender Politics of My 1970s and 80s Childhood, I Turned To Playthings

"It was toys that brought home how frighteningly recent the still shaky notion of gender equality is in our country."

May 6, 2021  By Gin Phillips
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Six Novels Featuring Adoptions Gone Awry

An adoption is full of stories. And literature is full of adoptions.

April 12, 2021  By R.J. Hoffman
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For One Author, the 2011 Terror Attack on Norway Changed Everything. But Could He Write It Into Fiction?

Grief, violence, and the writer's responsibility in the aftermath

February 10, 2021  By Ben McPherson
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Writing About the Russian Mob: The Brutal and the Absurd

An author reflects on a sprawling international criminal outfit.

February 9, 2021  By Emilya Naymark
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