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True Crime
May 11, 2023
Eleanor Cummins
Medical Mysteries Are the New True Crime
Why memoirs of sickness and elusive diagnosis increasingly read like detective stories
February 24, 2022
Robert Rubsam
What Do Crime Writers Owe Their Subjects?
John Darnielle’s new novel, “Devil House,” probes the moral implications of investigating a cold case.
July 21, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Unsolved Mysteries
Is a Story of American Television’s Evolution
Once upon a time, you could hunt aliens and murderers in the same show.
November 22, 2019
Andrea DenHoed
The
My Favorite Murder
Problem
The stories we tell about crime too often prop up fantasies about law enforcement and justice.
March 26, 2019
Rachel Vorona Cote
The Act
Illuminates a Lethal Bond
A new drama about the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard renders an abusive relationship with brutal clarity.
October 1, 2018
Rachel Syme
American Vandal
’s Uncanny Portrait of Generation Z
The true crime mockumentary’s second season sharply depicts a world of intensive reputation management.
August 15, 2018
Jo Livingstone
TV’s True Crime Voyeurism Reaches Its Crude End
In each episode of Netflix's "I Am A Killer," a man on death row describes his crime. But for what purpose?
June 14, 2018
Sarah Weinman
Arthur Conan Doyle, True Detective
How the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories fought for—and ultimately turned against—a man wrongfully convicted
June 11, 2018
Rachel Syme
How
The Staircase
Defined True Crime Series
With new episodes on Netflix, the show has followed the drawn-out workings of justice over several years.
January 6, 2017
Jo Livingstone
The Lurid Return of the Menendez Brothers
ABC’s new documentary about the notorious parent-killers is an unseemly and incoherent collage.
July 11, 2016
Sarah Marshall
The Night Of
: Welcome to Dead Girl Town
The eight-part miniseries keeps a tight focus on the perpetrator as protagonist.
October 28, 2015
Sarah Marshall
'Wicked City' and Our Enduring Obsession with Killer Couples
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