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History
The American Indian Code Talkers Who Helped Revolutionize Cryptography and Win WWII
After centuries of oppression, they developed the codes that couldn't be cracked.
By
Sinclair McKay
| August 1, 2023
James Lee Burke Reckons with History, the South, and the Hatred Burning Through America
The author discusses his newest novel, an epic of the American Civil War, with David Masciotra.
By
David Masciotra
| July 24, 2023
The Chicago Mob vs. the World’s Fair
Anika Scott on the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago and a city's quest to shed its bloody reputation
By
Anika Scott
| July 21, 2023
In Pursuit of the Lizard People, and the Dangerous Conspiracy Theories That Led to the 2020 Nashville Bombing
In 2021, Colin Dickey went to Nashville to see the garage where Anthony Quinn Warner set off his bomb. He found a web of conspiracy theories, and city still unsure what really happened.
By
Colin Dickey
| July 20, 2023
Colson Whitehead on Blaxploitation Cinema, Sidney Lumet's New York, and His Own Harlem Trilogy
The author discusses the latest installment of his sweeping crime history of New York City.
By
Dwyer Murphy
| July 20, 2023
The Birth of Salon Kitty, Wartime Berlin's Premier Brothel and Nazi Spy Trap
How Nazi leadership took their own twisted ideas about sex and applied them to domestic espionage.
By
Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner and Dr. Julia Schrammel
| July 14, 2023
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
In Praise of the Crafty Hortense Mancini
By
Robert Lloyd
| July 14, 2023
The Bizarre Story of the 'Cowboy Mutiny'
By
Nathan Ward
| July 6, 2023
Sarah Weinman on James Baldwin, the Atlanta Child Murders, and the Evolution of True Crime Writing
By
Sarah Weinman
| July 5, 2023
The Metropol Hotel: A Brief History of Moscow's Legendary (and Notorious) Hotel
It was a center for culture, commerce, dissolution, disenchantment, spies, foreigners, and revolutionaries.
By
Alan Philps
| July 5, 2023
The Bizarre, True Story of the World's Greatest Living Art Thief
Is stealing a work of art ever excusable? One master thief claims yes.
By
Michael Finkel
| June 27, 2023
The End of the Soviet Union and The Rise of the Oligarchs
Long established gangsters and former government agents grappled for resources in the twilight of the 20th century.
By
William Maz
| June 21, 2023
How "Manifest Destiny" Launched the American West into a Fateful, Bloody Summer
The summer that reshaped the nation.
By
Chris Wimmer
| May 30, 2023
Wicked Ways: Da Deuce in the 1980s
Michael Gonzales on the lights & grime of Times Square as it was.
By
Michael Gonzales
| May 25, 2023
All the Monsters in
Jane Eyre
A primer on the Gothic, 19th century women writers, and Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's classic
The Madwoman in the Attic
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| May 18, 2023
How Arthur Conan Doyle Was Duped By Some of the Victorian World's Most Obvious Hoaxes
The creator of Sherlock Holmes famously wanted to believe in the supernatural world. That desire led him down some strange paths.
By
Katie Spalding
| May 18, 2023
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