THIS WEEK: In 1927, mischievous siren of Hollywood and Vaudeville Mae West is busted for obscenity onstage in the flapper comedy “Sex” and sentenced to 10 days in the workhouse.
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- Measuring romantic partners against literary obsessions, and what happens when your dating pool is limited to Sherlock Holmes experts. | CrimeReads
- 1970s conspiracy thrillers: Daniel Palmer remembers his father’s favorite books, the paranoid thrillers that defined a decade. | CrimeReads
- 26 crime writing poets. A look at the long tradition of poets moonlighting in noir and crime novelists slumming in poetry, from Edgar Allan Poe to Charles Willeford. | CrimeReads
- Law & Order SVU star Mariska Hargitay’s campaign for victim’s rights. | Vanity Fair
- Why cults are the one thing Hannah Mary McKinnon won’t write about. | CrimeReads
- How Pablo Escobar’s hippos took over the Colombian countryside. | Literary Hub
- Addiction Books: 17 modern classics of darkness, yearning, and recovery, from Jerry Stahl to Sara Gran. | CrimeReads
- The Red Hook cherry mogul who led a secret life of (sort-of) crime. | The New Yorker
- “When our reality is this weird, what’s it doing to our fiction?” Brad Parks reports on the state of the thriller in the age of Trump. | CrimeReads
- “In times of uncertainty we seek comfort, redemption and resolution; a place where good triumphs over evil and order is restored.” On the rise of the thriller. | The Guardian
- The woman who cleans up after death: a day with a trauma cleaner. | CrimeReads
- How detective fiction influenced Magritte’s bowler hats, and other facts about the painter’s iconic imagery. | Artsy
- Sara Shepard on the fine art of nesting a thriller inside a thriller. | CrimeReads
- Whether you call them “beach reads” or “cottage reads,” here’s a list of Canada’s best new suspense to fill out your summer reading list. | The Globe and Mail
- The critic re-solving detective fiction’s most famous cases. | CrimeReads
