• History

    The Rise of Privateering in the American Revolution

    Congress was reluctant, at first, to embrace privateers. As the war effort grew more desperate, they soon changed their minds.

    July 15, 2022  By Eric Jay Dolin
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    Adventures in Writing Time Travel

    Kelley Armstrong on all the details you need to get right to believably whisk your characters (and your readers) into the past

    July 13, 2022  By Kelley Armstrong
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    When Kurt Vonnegut Met Norman Mailer in Cape Cod's Legendary "Helltown"

    Provincetown was a place of enchantment, light, and art. But there was a dark side to the literary life there, too.

    July 12, 2022  By Casey Sherman
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    Boris Nayfeld, the Jewish Gangster-Survivor, and the Birth of the Russian Mob in Brooklyn

    Douglas Century visits with the last of the original Brighton Beach mob bosses.

    July 6, 2022  By Douglas Century
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    Mussolini's Son-in-Law Kept a Diary – And It Put Him Right in the Crosshairs of Hitler and the Nazi Spy Apparatus

    Galeazzo Ciano was Italy's foreign minister, a witness to key events in history. And he was writing it all down.

    June 21, 2022  By Tilar J. Mazzeo
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    Unusual and Iconic Tales of Intentional Poisonings

    Kate Khavari on the long and sordid history of murder by poison

    June 17, 2022  By Kate Khavari
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    The Mysterious Case of the CIA's Man in Moscow

    Alexander Ogorodnik was recruited in a Turkish bath in Bogotá, Colombia. Then, he was summoned back to Moscow.

    June 8, 2022  By Howard Blum
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    What Happens When Britain's Secret Spies Aren't So Secret Anymore?

    Britain's legendarily cloistered intelligence agencies are making an effort toward openness and inclusivity. What are we to make of it?

    May 25, 2022  By James Wolff
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    James Lee Burke on Personal Tragedy, National Trauma, and the Search for Salvation

    "The story of Eden, and how it influences my work, is not the story of a snake in a tree, but the story of what we are doing to the tree – what we are doing to the Garden."

    May 24, 2022  By David Masciotra
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    An Interview with the Hangman's Wife

    Nancy Dougherty on the uncanny experience of traveling to the Baltic Sea to interview the wife of Reinhard Heydrich.

    May 24, 2022  By Nancy Dougherty
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