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Counterpoint
March 31, 1985: The Day That Tore San Diego Apart
"Two white San Diego Police officers followed a pickup truck with seven young Black men up a long dirt driveway in the Southeast neighborhood of Encanto. Minutes later, something terrible happened."
Peter Houlahan on Sagon Penn, Policing in California, and the Trial That Changed San Diego
The author discusses a turning point for San Diego in his new book, 'Reap the Whirldwind'
Inviting Nature Onto The Page
The natural world should be a dynamic character, not a stagnant backdrop
Shane’s Lot: How a 1949 Gun-Toting Loner Still Rides Through American Literature
Maria Hummel on American Iconography and the 21st Century Revival of Western Writing
How a Team of Ambitious Crooks in 1960s Montreal Planned the Biggest Bank Heist Anyone Had Ever Seen
In 1961, Montreal was the bank robbery capital of North America. A team of criminals wanted to plan the perfect caper.
On Social Justice and Crime Stories
Anne Burt looks at "four recent crime novels that seamlessly thread issues of social justice throughout their propulsive storytelling."
Dracula vs. the FBI
Or, how J. Edgar Hoover's goons pursued Bela Lugosi at the height of the Red Scare.
On Harrow Hill
John Verdon
"Although their partnership had lasted only ten months, Gurney knew more about the personal life of Mike Morgan than that of anyone else he’d worked with in his twenty-five years in the NYPD."
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