Barry Jenkins’s If Beale Street Could Talk is a gorgeous, devastating watercolor of a film, so simultaneously ethereal and ...

Barbara Stanwyck pauses at the top of the staircase in Double Indemnity. The camera lingers on the anklet around her ankle.

My writing career has been like a time-travel cruise studded with real-life celebrities. In my Sano Ichiro samurai detective ...

As a Gen Xer growing up in the boring suburban Midwest, boomers repeated certain adages meant to guide me into adulthood: ...

Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Michael Connelly, The Hollow (Little Brown) ...

Nicolina Torres was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and most of her works focus on the Midwest American experience. She writes long ...

Of all the familiar tropes in crime fiction, I am most drawn to the “planning to kill a spouse” story in all its different forms. It’s such a personal murder—how does one go from a vow of marriage to ...

When I put together our big fall preview list a couple of months ago, some readers thought there might be a bit too much ...

When I first started working on The Haunting of Lavender House, I didn’t set out to write a Croatian gothic novel. But that ...

Ahhhhh, the holidays. That wonderful time of year when it’s twelve degrees outside, you’re forced to see all those relatives ...

On a winter evening some years ago, in a tiny cottage in North Wales, a friend of a friend said something to me that has ...

The thrill of psychological suspense is in the familiar. Take, for example, that perfect couple living in the fabulous house ...