THIS WEEK: In 1952, Gunsmoke premieres on CBS.
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- “The worst thing you can do to citizens of a democratic nation is to silence them.” Walter Mosley on why he quit a TV writers’ room and the slippery slope of censorship. | New York Times
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“Who among us wouldn’t find comfort in super-powered mutants who use what makes them different to fight ignorance, bigotry, and oppression?” John Vercher on graphic novels and social justice. | CrimeReads
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Susan Elia MacNeal on ten novels that help uncover the lives of the more than 3,000 female spies working on behalf of Britain during WWII. | CrimeReads
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Thomas Kies on four iconic crime characters—and why a good protagonist will keep us coming back to a series time and again. | CrimeReads
- James R. Benn investigates what the world’s best crime authors were publishing during the WWII era, and asks what those books say about our societies. | CrimeReads
- Rachel Monroe talks with Tori Telfer about grappling with true crime obsessions and appetites, in the latest episode of Criminal Broads. | CrimeReads
- Erin Lindsey with advice for crime writers on how to meaningfully interweave the real, the unreal, and the unknown. | CrimeReads
- “After all, does anyone really consider themselves ‘the bad guy’?” Nathan Makaryk on learning to write from the villain’s perspective. | |CrimeReads
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Olivia Rutigliano on the 1990s rom-com as a redo of the detective genre, and what it means to fall in love at the start of the Information Age. | CrimeReads
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“Jazz and noir go hand in hand.” Aex Segura on the long, proud tradition of infusing crime novels with a jazz soundtrack. | CrimeReads
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Amy Stewart on the moment when, 100 years ago, Americans were debating whether women should be armed to protect them from sexual assaults. | CrimeReads
- T.M. Logan with eight campus novels featuring academics who could use a moral education |CrimeReads
- Patricia Wiltshire explains how studying the plant-life at crime scenes became her life’s work, and how forensic ecology has changed how detectives work. | CrimeReads
- Siri Mitchell with six thrillers that revisit, remember, and complicate the legacy of the First Gulf War. | CrimeReads
- Kerri Maniscalco on America’s first serial killer, H.H. Holmes, forever overshadowed by England’s, Jack the Ripper. | CrimeReads
- Sarah Weinman on the new season of Mindhunter and the ongoing debate about how to ethically watch/read/listen to true crime stories. | CrimeReads
- Audrey Carey went to San Francisco to search for greater meaning; she died there. Vivian Ho describes the culture and dangers of youthful wandering. | CrimeReads
