Frances Glessner Lee was an early leader in the emerging forensic sciences and is the subject of Bruce Goldfarb’s 18 Tiny Deaths.
Journalist and author David Stout recounts the bewildering rash of kidnappings that swept the United States during the Great Depression.
Twenty contemporary crime writers leave fiction behind with essays revealing unsolvable riddles from their own lives.
Wendy Lesser’s Scandinavian Noir is a fascinating tribute to a unique breed of mystery. Fans of Nordic noir, take note.
Colin Woodard tackles the evolution of ideas about America’s nationhood leading up to the Civil War in Union.
David Adjmi’s vibrant, scenic memoir, Lot Six, ushers readers into fundamental questions of identity, community and belonging.
Action Park is a wild up-close portrait of a New Jersey amusement park that was horrible or wonderful, depending on your perspective.
Shayla Lawson’s This Is Major is a necessary study of self-enlightenment and the unique power of Black girls: We contain multitudes.
‘Notes on a Silencing’ is a ghastly account, beautifully told, of a teenage girl learning that people in power often value reputation above all else.
Hearing Laymon’s words in his own voice was even more affecting than reading them on the page.
The Vapors is David Hill’s true crime narrative of Hot Springs, Arkansas, arguably America’s gambling capital until it all came crashing down in the mid-1960s.
Author Ben Widdicombe shares lessons about the world’s wealthiest people gleaned from working at three of the biggest outlets in gossip.
In the hilarious and intimate The Hungover Games, Sophie Heawood chronicles her bumpy journey from woman-about-town to single parent.
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