A prose poem by Charles Rafferty
Author: Mason Street
Blue Sermon: Hate to Tell You
Catherine Lee on Blues great Arnett Cobb, “The Wild Man of the Tenor Sax,” and Jim Crow racism in the south.
Book Review: A Saint from Texas
G.E. Schwartz on a sprawling story of identical twin sisters from a small town, whose lives take entirely different directions
Troubadour
A poem by Kersten Christianson
Continental Drift
A poem by Julie Rochlin
Fountain City, Tennessee, 1964
A poem by Gale Acuff
Gerrit Achterberg (1905-1962)
A poem by James Thurgood
The Coastguard Cottages, Cuckmere Haven
A poem by Mantz Yorke
English as a Second Language
An essay by Cynthia Bruckman
David Baldacci: My Library Memories
The best-selling author David Baldacci on the magical books of his childhood, Encyclopedia Brown, The Three Investigators, and the vital importance of libraries
What Would Wimsey Do?
An excerpt from Guy Fraser Sampson’s mystery of the not-quite-golden-age
Martin Edwards: “My Top Ten Favorite Hercule Poirot Mysteries”
Martin Edwards, The consultant to the British Library’s Crime Classics series and current President of the Detection Club weighs in on the best of Poirot!
Mastering the Art of French Cooking
A short story by Art Taylor
THE GREAT WRONG PLACE: RAYMOND CHANDLER’S LOS ANGELES AT 70
Mike Valerio on ‘the idea of the city as a living, breathing character–capturing the sights, the smells, the bleak glare of the sunlight, the deceptive smoothness of the surface beneath which nothing is as it seems.’
The Paignton Poisoner: a poem by Mark Temple
Lord High Executioner
Albert’s Last Shave: True Crime expert Michael Benson on Albert Anastasia
Disappeared
by John Mueter Like many residents of Stockholm, the Nesser family spent much of the summer at their cabin on a small island. The Baltic archipelago, comprised of thousands of islands, is easily accessible from […]
Sea Seekers
A new stream of consciousness story by Christine Law
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