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In Borderlands of Truth and Silence: Jennifer Givhan on Writing Mexicali Magical Realism

In Borderlands of Truth and Silence: Jennifer Givhan on Writing Mexicali Magical Realism

The Author of "Salt Bones" Takes on Motherhood, Inherited Trauma, and Erasure

By Jennifer Givhan | July 29, 2025

No Way Out: Using Locked-Room Mysteries to Explore Psychological Entrapment

No Way Out: Using Locked-Room Mysteries to Explore Psychological Entrapment

Kelsey Cox on Whodunits, Vulnerability, and Creating Literary Claustrophobia

By Kelsey Cox | July 28, 2025

Lauren Wilson's Favorite Books Featuring Cults

Lauren Wilson's Favorite Books Featuring Cults

Rounding up a disturbing and fascinating sub-genre.

By Lauren Wilson | July 24, 2025

Weird girls, manic pixies, and other myths of girlhood

Weird girls, manic pixies, and other myths of girlhood

Charlotte Tierney sets the record straight on archetypes

By Charlotte Tierney | July 23, 2025

Buddies Like Spoiled Milk: Five Books That Feature Toxic Friendships

Buddies Like Spoiled Milk: Five Books That Feature Toxic Friendships

Christina Dotson Raves Over These Rancid Pairings

By Christina Dotson | July 22, 2025

6 Films Silvia Moreno-Garcia Recommends for Writers

6 Films Silvia Moreno-Garcia Recommends for Writers

The Author of "The Bewitching" on Alfred Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt," Fritz Lang, and More

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia | July 21, 2025

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Julie Clark on Speaking Up, Standing Out, and Her New Suspense Novel, 'The Ghostwriter'

By John B. Valeri | July 21, 2025

Gabino Iglesias: Let's Talk About Some New Books

By Gabino Iglesias | July 18, 2025

Dark Books for Long Summer Days

By Sara Ochs | July 18, 2025

Jo Piazza on the Power of

Jo Piazza on the Power of "Unlikeable Women"

A celebration of the "messy and complicated and murderous."

By Jo Piazza | July 18, 2025

Four Novels That Twist the Slasher Model Into Something Darker and More Personal

Four Novels That Twist the Slasher Model Into Something Darker and More Personal

Daphne Woolsoncroft on dread and violence.

By Daphne Woolsoncroft | July 17, 2025

Why Marriage Is the Perfect Crime Scene: The Rise of Domestic Suspense

Why Marriage Is the Perfect Crime Scene: The Rise of Domestic Suspense

A.R. Torre on finding the right balance of intimacy and menace.

By A.R. Torre | July 16, 2025

Essential Reading for the Bigfoot-Curious

Essential Reading for the Bigfoot-Curious

5 books to broaden your Sasquatch knowledge (whether you believe or not)

By Giano Cromley | July 16, 2025

How a Handyman Visit Pushed One Author Closer to a World of Paranoia and Conspiracy Theories

How a Handyman Visit Pushed One Author Closer to a World of Paranoia and Conspiracy Theories

Nicci Cloke needed a treadmill repaired. In the end, she found her new thriller.

By Nicci Cloke | July 16, 2025

Polly Stewart: Why I Had to Write About Modern-Day Moonshiners

Polly Stewart: Why I Had to Write About Modern-Day Moonshiners

"Very few people I met seemed to realize that when the rest of the country stopped making and drinking moonshine, Appalachia kept right on."

By Polly Stewart | July 15, 2025

Sarah Hornsley on Assault and the Trauma of Silence

Sarah Hornsley on Assault and the Trauma of Silence

"[T]here was nothing lonelier than people knowing what had happened . . . but acting like they didn’t."

By Sarah Hornsley | July 15, 2025

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