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The Scientific Detective: How Luis W. Alvarez Pursued Theory Through Practice

The Scientific Detective: How Luis W. Alvarez Pursued Theory Through Practice

Alec Nevala-Lee on the Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist's Experimental Approach to Scientific Inquiry

By Alec Nevala-Lee | June 11, 2025

“A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before.” On Josephine Tey’s <em>The Daughter of Time</em>

“A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before.” On Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time

Sarah Weinman in Praise of an Innovative and Timeless Work of Detective Fiction

By Sarah Weinman | April 16, 2025

Memories Aren’t Enough: Why Sometimes Only Fiction Can Solve the Mysteries of Life

Memories Aren’t Enough: Why Sometimes Only Fiction Can Solve the Mysteries of Life

Emily Schultz on the Importance of Slanted Truths in Storytelling

By Emily Schultz | January 3, 2024

What is this summer's big mystery book?

What is this summer's big mystery book?

By Emily Temple | May 8, 2023

Catherine Lloyd on Writing Historical Characters with Progressive Views

Catherine Lloyd on Writing Historical Characters with Progressive Views

In Conversation with C. P. Lesley on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | June 10, 2022

Erica Ruth Neubauer on Mysteries, Her Many Careers, and the Google Search That Started Her Novel

Erica Ruth Neubauer on Mysteries, Her Many Careers, and the Google Search That Started Her Novel

In Conversation with C. P. Lesley on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | May 13, 2022

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If a Bear Shows Up in the First Act, He Better Eat Someone in the Second

If a Bear Shows Up in the First Act, He Better Eat Someone in the Second

Tom Bouman on the Use of Man-Eating Bears in Fiction

By Tom Bouman | June 27, 2017

Clarice Lispector's Children's Story Taught Me to Read Her Like An Adult

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Andréa Stella on the Key to The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit

By Andréa Stella | March 17, 2017

Reuniting Two Halves of a Long-Lost Alexandre Dumas Novel

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A Literary Detective Story from the Translator of The Red Sphinx

By Lawrence Ellsworth | January 9, 2017

Otto Penzler's 5 Crime and Mystery Picks for October

Otto Penzler's 5 Crime and Mystery Picks for October

From Raymond Chandler to Carl Hiaasen

By Otto Penzler | October 18, 2016

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