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Trauma Talk: 4 Mystery Novels and Series Where the Protagonist Gets Therapy

Trauma Talk: 4 Mystery Novels and Series Where the Protagonist Gets Therapy

Barry Lyga recommends hero-in-therapy stories by Jussi Adler-Olsen, Stephen White, and more

By Barry Lyga | June 22, 2026

A Father and Daughter Discuss Their Shared Crime Obsessions

A Father and Daughter Discuss Their Shared Crime Obsessions

For Father's Day, authors Harold Schechter and Lauren Oliver are talking writing, crime, and the darkest corners of the human psyche.

By Lauren Oliver | June 19, 2026

What Should You Watch This Weekend?

What Should You Watch This Weekend?

Featuring a hardboiled Colin Farrell taking a weird new direction.

By Dwyer Murphy | June 19, 2026

5 Great Novels That Read Like Bad Trips, Fever Dreams, or Reality Warps

5 Great Novels That Read Like Bad Trips, Fever Dreams, or Reality Warps

Lindsay Kent recommends gloriously unhinged tales by Steven Hall, Marisha Pessl, and others

By Lindsay Kent | June 19, 2026

Jessica Payne on Antiheroes, Gender, and the Rise of Female Pyschopaths in Fiction

Jessica Payne on Antiheroes, Gender, and the Rise of Female Pyschopaths in Fiction

The author of Somebody Worth Killing unpacks the complex allure of the morally gray woman

By Jessica Payne | June 19, 2026

The 5 Greatest Fictional Recurring Characters, According to Alison Gaylin

The 5 Greatest Fictional Recurring Characters, According to Alison Gaylin

The author of Robert B. Parker's Booked recommends friends and foes who refuse to die

By Alison Gaylin | June 18, 2026

Best Reviewed
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Guru-dunit: 5 Mysteries That Skewer the Worlds of Wellness and Self-Help

By Asia Mackay | June 18, 2026

What to Watch Now, International Edition: Infernal Affairs (2002)

By Radha Vatsal | June 18, 2026

Millicent Simmonds Co-Writes and Stars in New Thriller, Grace With a Deaf Protagonist

By Olivia Rutigliano | June 17, 2026

6 Suspense Novels About Art, Museums, and Forgers

6 Suspense Novels About Art, Museums, and Forgers

Carol Snow recommends Mary Dixie Carter, Antoine Wilson, Katie Lattari,, and more

By Carol Snow | June 17, 2026

5 Propulsive Thrillers Featuring Trauma, Reunions, and Lingering Pasts

5 Propulsive Thrillers Featuring Trauma, Reunions, and Lingering Pasts

Jaclyn Goldis recommends Liz Moore, Riley Sager, and more

By Jaclyn Goldis | June 17, 2026

Beau L’Amour and Ryan Pote Discuss a Long Legacy of Thrillers

Beau L’Amour and Ryan Pote Discuss a Long Legacy of Thrillers

A conversation between the authors of the new thrillers, 'Skyring Water' and 'The Ghost City'

By Beau L'Amour | June 17, 2026

What to Watch Now: The Witch (2015)

What to Watch Now: The Witch (2015)

A deeply immersive, unsettling horror film set in Puritan New England.

By Radha Vatsal | June 17, 2026

(A.C.A.G.) All Cops Are Grotesque: Writing the Southern Gothic Police Officer

(A.C.A.G.) All Cops Are Grotesque: Writing the Southern Gothic Police Officer

"[M]oving from physical deformity to social deformity has given rise to...a surprising but perhaps inevitable evolution."

By T.J. Martinson | June 16, 2026

Hilary Davidson on Learning to Love Unreliable Narrators

Hilary Davidson on Learning to Love Unreliable Narrators

The author of Every Lie I Told explores trauma, creative storytelling, and the pixelation of memory

By Hilary Davidson | June 16, 2026

Kimberly McCreight on Memoirs, Cheryl Strayed's 'Wild', and Climbing Mountains

Kimberly McCreight on Memoirs, Cheryl Strayed's 'Wild', and Climbing Mountains

The author of 'Someone Else's Husband' takes an expedition to the summit of Aconcagua

By Kimberly McCreight | June 16, 2026

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