The best-selling author David Baldacci on the magical books of his childhood, Encyclopedia Brown, The Three Investigators, and the vital importance of libraries
Category: Nonfiction
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!
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.’
Lord High Executioner
Albert’s Last Shave: True Crime expert Michael Benson on Albert Anastasia
The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie
Mark Temple on The Queen of Crime and Her Legacy
A Ghost in Edinburgh
by Frances Park For a reluctant traveler, I felt at home in Edinburgh. And by the time the hired car pulled up to the G&V Hotel, I knew the lay of the land. Me, who […]
365 Pelham Road
Author Sejal Shah shares an essay from her latest collection, This is One Way to Dance.
Our Library Memories
Special guest authors Charles Todd and Caroline Todd share their library memories!
Home Sweet Home: Stone Schoolhouse Rd
An essay by Mary A. Hood
An Interview with George Rollie Adams
MSR sits down with the former CEO of The Strong Museum and author of South of Little Rock, A Novel
My Library Memories
Special guest author Lois Lowry kicks off our new column and shares her own library memories!
Looking For Ugly
By Karen Weyant
The squonk is the ugliest animal in Pennsylvania’s hemlock forests.
Described as a round ball of sagging skin and drooping warts, this creature is fully aware of its own ugliness and spends its time hiding and weeping in the deepest woods.
Slime: A Book Review
By Celeste Schantz
Ruth Kassinger tells us how Algae created us, plague us, and might just save us!
Hearken: An Essay by M.A. Pelletier
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
A Book Review by Celeste Schantz
