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Nonfiction The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World Sarah Weinman
Excerpt The Morning of Yitzhak Rabin’s Assassination: A Prologue Excerpted from Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel by Dan Ephron.Yitzhak Rabin woke up before seven the morning of November… Dan Ephron October 22, 2015
Interview Interview: Naomi Ragen by Elise CooperThe Devil in Jerusalem is a terrifying thriller, but even more upsetting is that this story was based on a true event. It explores the horrific… Elise Cooper October 15, 2015
Nonfiction God’ll Cut You Down: The Tangled Tale of A White Supremacist, A Black Hustler, A Murder, And How I Lost A Year In Mississippi John Safran
Essay New York as a Crime Novel Earlier this week, Jerome Charyn wrote about growing up Jewish in the Bronx. He is the author of the recently published short story collection Bitter Bronx and will be… Jerome Charyn June 17, 2015
Nonfiction A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel Edmund Levin
Nonfiction Hollywood’s Celebrity Gangster: The Incredible Life and Times of Mickey Cohen Brad Lewis
Nonfiction Thugs: How History’s Most Notorious Despots Transformed the World Through Terror, Tyranny and Mass Murder Micah D. Halpern
