• Genres

    Reading Chester Himes: Who Is the Real Star of His Show?

    Grave Digger and Coffin Ed aren’t the main characters in the ‘Harlem Detectives’ series.

    June 5, 2025  By Thomas E. Ricks
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    5 Essential YA Novels from Canadian Indigenous Authors

    Richard Van Camp celebrates a banner moment in young adult literature

    June 5, 2025  By Richard Van Camp
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    Megan Abbott on Criminal Conspiracies in the Fallen Suburbs

    In Abbott's new thriller, three sisters in Grosse Pointe get drawn into an 'investment club.'

    June 5, 2025  By Dwyer Murphy
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    Rory Power: In Defense of Murderous Main Characters

    'I have very little shock in me anymore. The question of "who would do such a thing?" feels asked and answered.'

    June 5, 2025  By Rory Power
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    Small Town Gothic:
    11 Story Collections Set in
    Fictional Locales

    These fictitious small towns are "simmered in the cast iron Dutch oven of a parochial geography"

    June 4, 2025  By Robert Busby
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    6 Books Exploring Romantic Obsession

    Olivia Worley looks at the literature of unrequited love

    June 4, 2025  By Olivia Worley
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    Why the Expat Experience Is the Perfect Starting Point for a Thriller

    Kimberly Belle on adventure, discomfiture, and vulnerability.

    June 4, 2025  By Kimberly Belle
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    James Lee Burke on the Highs and Lows of American History

    Burke and David Masciotra continue their years-long conversation on literature and American history.

    June 3, 2025  By David Masciotra
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    The Art of Doing Nothing, The Craft of Making it Hurt

    Katia Lief on what cult leaders and crime novelists have in common.

    June 3, 2025  By Katia Lief
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    The Psychopath as Narrator

    "What crime writer wouldn’t want their psychopath to psychoanalyse themselves, in full view of the reader?"

    June 2, 2025  By Cara Hunter
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