Crime

Storyteller Extraordinaire

Connelly’s novels make up one vast saga of crime and punishment, bureaucracy and domesticity, friendship and enmity. Continue Reading »

13 Nov 2020

Historian of the Present

by John Wilson

Michael Connelly is a historian of the present, telling us what is “happening” with immediacy and imaginative depth through his crime novels. Continue Reading »

29 May 2020

The pro-choice media and entertainment industry seem to have conspired to make certain that as few people as possible ever see the film Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer. Continue Reading »

5 Nov 2018

He Stands Apart

by Mark Bauerlein

The Ross Macdonald Collection: 11 Classic Lew Archer Novelsby ross macdonaldedited by tom nolanlibrary of america, 3 volumes, 2618 pages, $112.50 Near the end of Find a Victim, Ross Macdonald’s 1954 novel of murder and hijacking in a small California town, private eye Lew Archer suggests to . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2018

Historical Ignorance, Moral Arrogance

by Marc Barnes

My generation tends to think of itself as the first generation to be moral, tolerant, decent, and good. We abhor racism, sexism, nationalism, and homophobia, crimes we set at the center of past societies—all of them. We have avoided the bloody vices of slavery, torture, pillaging, religious . . . . Continue Reading »

30 Dec 2017

Against Capital Punishment

by Paul J. Griffiths

The Death Penalty, Volume Iby jacques derridatranslated by peggy kamufuniversity of chicago, 312 pages, $38 The Death Penalty, Volume IIby jacques derridatranslated by elizabeth rottenberguniversity of chicago, 304 pages, $45 Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishmentby carol s. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2017

Searching for Ted Kaczynski

by Elliot Milco

Manhunt: Unabomber revisits the story of Ted Kaczynski, the domestic terrorist who waged a decades-long bombing campaign from a one-room cabin in Montana. Continue Reading »

26 Sep 2017

We're No. 144

by James Nuechterlein

New York's crime rate placed it 144th among the nation's 189 largest cities. You're safer here, the New York Times recently reported, than in Beaumont, Texas, Independence, Missouri, or Anchorage, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 1997

Abortion Facts and Feelings

by Hadley Arkes

The story is told of a young student from an exotic place, a colonial dependency of Britain, who was suddenly delivered to Oxford University. The word soon got about that the tradition of cannibalism had not been perfectly extinguished in this young man's tribe, and a certain concern was registered, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 1994