Sometimes a biography just doesn’t cut it. When it comes to a gripping story about a real person, a just-the-facts approach can be utterly compelling—but what if the subject isn’t so cut and dry? What if we can’t ever know the full picture? This is the playground of historical fiction, and in the right hands, […]
Serial killers are disproportionately common in fiction (well, we hope, anyway). There’s just something darkly fascinating about human beings who so completely slip the bonds of civilization—aand that fascination occasionally inspires an author to come up with a killer so deranged, the violence becomes something like poetry. The list of bizarre serial killers is long […]
Bibliophiles rejoice! The man who brought you last year’s Shakespearean whodunnit, The Bookman’s Tale, has returned, and this time he’s on the trail of another famed author—Jane Austen. Charlie Lovett’s First Impressions delves into the authorship of Pride and Prejudice—more specifically, the question of whether Austen wrote those famous words, or stole the idea from an elderly cleric named the Rev. […]