• True Crime

    When Fictionalizing True Crime, How Do You Avoid Exploitation?

    Character is key to crafting a sensitive story that is far from sensationalist.

    January 9, 2023  By Amanda Pellegrino
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    Ryan Murphy’s Dahmer Equates Queerness with Monstrosity

    "What happens...when you marry the aesthetics of Murphy’s brand and his straight pandering to a true crime story about Jeffrey Dahmer?"

    January 6, 2023  By John Copenhaver
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    The Most Glamorous Gang in London History

    On "Alice Diamond, Queen of Thieves, and her ‘girls’ from The Forty Thieves, who pilfered their way to notoriety in the first half of the twentieth century."

    January 3, 2023  By Beezy Marsh
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    Crime and the City: Karachi

    Pakistan's most populated city has a big tradition of books that explore crime and corruption.

    January 3, 2023  By Paul French
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    A Murder on the Margins, and a Death That Would Haunt One Writer for Years to Come

    Gwen Florio on a tragedy played out in Missoula's transient community and an imbalanced legal system.

    January 3, 2023  By Gwen Florio
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    Maligned in the Media Due to the Actions of Men

    "[T]hey may not all be perfect victims, but I do believe that they were overly-demonized by the public and media alike"

    January 3, 2023  By Flora Collins
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    My Favorite Con Artists

    Victoria Thompson on some of history's most inventive swindlers, and the stories they passed down.

    December 21, 2022  By Victoria Thompson
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    The Best International True Crime Podcasts for Winter 2022-23

    Heists, fugitives, and cold cases from around the globe.

    December 19, 2022  By Paul French
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    The Best True Crime Books of the Year

    Elusive crimes from the American frontiers, family investigations, and a new theory in the Zodiac killings rounded out the year's best crime nonfiction.

    December 17, 2022  By CrimeReads 
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    On Choosing our #MeToo Heroes: Journalists or Survivors?

    "[A]re journalists the most apt heroes in unravelling the thorny issues of a #MeToo mystery?  Or is it time that we move to a survivor-centered narrative?"

    December 15, 2022  By Winnie M. Li
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