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Class in Crime Fiction: A Roundtable Discussion

Class in Crime Fiction: A Roundtable Discussion

Adrian McKinty, Laura McHugh, Angel Luis Colón, Julia Dahl, Joe Ide, and Lisa Levy take one of the least discussed issues in fiction.

By Lisa Levy | November 9, 2021

6 Great Books Featuring Father-Daughter Relationships

6 Great Books Featuring Father-Daughter Relationships

Fictional families can be messy and twisted, but these books are dedicated to exploring complex and tender relationships over the destructive and perverse.

By Kimi Cunningham Grant | November 3, 2021

Masterful Mysteries Set in the Midwest

Masterful Mysteries Set in the Midwest

Crime fiction in America's Heartland

By Nicole Baart | November 2, 2021

Alex Schulman: In Order To Heal From The Trauma of My Past, I Had To Stop Ignoring It

Alex Schulman: In Order To Heal From The Trauma of My Past, I Had To Stop Ignoring It

"The past lives, and perhaps our power lies in how we interpret it"

By Alex Schulman | November 1, 2021

Harare, Zimbabwe: Writing Crime in a Tough Town

Harare, Zimbabwe: Writing Crime in a Tough Town

An African capital with turbulent politics and an impressive literary output.

By Paul French | November 1, 2021

How Crime Fiction Can Help Us Understand The Many Layers of Violence in Society

How Crime Fiction Can Help Us Understand The Many Layers of Violence in Society

"We’re wired for small-scale, agonistic conflict, where we feel, at a gut level, that we have agency."

By Joy Castro | November 1, 2021

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Five Eerie Tales of Folk Horror

By Tom Cox | October 29, 2021

Shop Talk: Michael Koryta Writes 1500 Words and Gets to Ring the Bell

Shop Talk: Michael Koryta Writes 1500 Words and Gets to Ring the Bell

Crime writers talk craft, routine, and finding satisfaction in the work.

By Eli Cranor | October 28, 2021

Fever Dream Novels: 7 Great Books That You'll Read in a Mad, Disorienting Dash

Fever Dream Novels: 7 Great Books That You'll Read in a Mad, Disorienting Dash

Unconventional narratives that leave you wondering what's true and what's imagined.

By Erin Mayer | October 28, 2021

Literary Crime: The Search for an Elusive Genre

Literary Crime: The Search for an Elusive Genre

Dancing at the Edge of Crime

By Tess Little | October 28, 2021

Horror Fiction In The Age of Covid: A Roundtable Discussion

Horror Fiction In The Age of Covid: A Roundtable Discussion

"Horror is not a genre but a feeling, it’s often said." –Alma Katsu

By Molly Odintz | October 27, 2021

9 YA Survival Thrillers To Get Your Heart Pounding This Fall

9 YA Survival Thrillers To Get Your Heart Pounding This Fall

These novels ask the scariest question of all:
what wouldn't you do to survive?

By Rektok Ross | October 26, 2021

John Banville: How Bram Stoker's <em>Dracula</em> Became a Surprising, Deathless Classic

John Banville: How Bram Stoker's Dracula Became a Surprising, Deathless Classic

More than a century later, the novel still invites revisits and reinterpretations. It's also much stranger than you might remember.

By John Banville | October 22, 2021

8 Thrillers and Mysteries with Underlying Supernatural Elements

8 Thrillers and Mysteries with Underlying Supernatural Elements

Combining the supernatural with the "real world" can be a challenge, but the results are infinitely rewarding.

By C.J. Cooke | October 22, 2021

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