Essays
Sean David Robinson on Why Missing Person Thrillers Are Addictive (According to Science)
An exploration of Edwin Drood, American disappearances, and the neuroscience behind a mystery trope
Sturm und Drang: Allison Brennan on Turning Weather into a Character in Thrillers
"Stories like this demand respect. Real people live through these storms. Real families don’t get to close the book and walk away."
Eliza Jabore on Translating Her Fraught Travel Stories with Friends into a Novel
The author of Backstabbers shares a tale of treacherous trail connections in Florence
Jessica Payne on Antiheroes, Gender, and the Rise of Female Pyschopaths in Fiction
The author of Somebody Worth Killing unpacks the complex allure of the morally gray woman
What to Watch Now: The Witch (2015)
A deeply immersive, unsettling horror film set in Puritan New England.
(A.C.A.G.) All Cops Are Grotesque: Writing the Southern Gothic Police Officer
"[M]oving from physical deformity to social deformity has given rise to...a surprising but perhaps inevitable evolution."
Hilary Davidson on Learning to Love Unreliable Narrators
The author of Every Lie I Told explores trauma, creative storytelling, and the pixelation of memory
Kimberly McCreight on Memoirs, Cheryl Strayed's 'Wild', and Climbing Mountains
The author of 'Someone Else's Husband' takes an expedition to the summit of Aconcagua
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