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The Women Who Joined the Ranks of Latin America's Top Narco-Traffickers

The Women Who Joined the Ranks of Latin America's Top Narco-Traffickers

In researching her new book, Deborah Bonello found that women were rising through the ranks of Latin America's drug cartels. She wanted to know why.

By Deborah Bonello | July 26, 2023

In Pursuit of the Lizard People, and the Dangerous Conspiracy Theories That Led to the 2020 Nashville Bombing

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

An Unsettling Conversation with Samuel Little, America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

An Unsettling Conversation with Samuel Little, America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

In Jillian Lauren's new book, Behold the Monster, she looks into the abyss in search of a killer's story.

By Jillian Lauren | July 18, 2023

The Birth of Salon Kitty, Wartime Berlin's Premier Brothel and Nazi Spy Trap

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

How Truman Capote Was Destroyed by His Own Masterpiece

How Truman Capote Was Destroyed by His Own Masterpiece

Inside a New Volume Reproducing the Original Manuscript
of In Cold Blood

By Ebs Burnough | July 10, 2023

Sarah Weinman on James Baldwin, the Atlanta Child Murders, and the Evolution of True Crime Writing

Sarah Weinman on James Baldwin, the Atlanta Child Murders, and the Evolution of True Crime Writing

A new nonfiction anthology shows the range and depth of today's true crime writing.

By Sarah Weinman | July 5, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Mark O'Connell on Walking Around Dublin Looking for a Murderer

By Kevin Canfield | June 30, 2023

New Orleans Bounce and the Rise of Cash Money Records

By Seth Ferranti | June 30, 2023

How Michael Finkel Tracked Down the World's Most Successful Art Thief

By Kevin Canfield | June 29, 2023

The Bizarre, True Story of the World's Greatest Living Art Thief

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

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

The Private Investigator and the Hollywood Con Queen

The Private Investigator and the Hollywood Con Queen

Somebody was posing as a famous producer and luring people into myterious international projects—but why?

By Scott C. Johnson | June 15, 2023

The Butcher, The Embezzler, and the Fall Guy

The Butcher, The Embezzler, and the Fall Guy

A strange story of greed, corruption, and the meat industry, from early 20th century Minnesota.

By Gretchen Eberhart Cherington | June 15, 2023

7 True Crime Podcasts You Need to Listen to This Summer

7 True Crime Podcasts You Need to Listen to This Summer

False confessions, unsolved mysteries, and more crimes from the Sunshine State.

By Lizzy Steiner | June 2, 2023

How

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

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

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