Articles tagged: true crime
What Does Our Fascination with True Crime Say About Us?
Rachel Monroe’s Savage Appetites asks why true-crime stories are so popular, even while they risk exploitation.
True crime has never been more popular. The 2014 hit podcast Serial ignited a burgeoning genre whose recent entries include Netflix shows (Making a Murderer, Un...Read More
‘Midnight Assassin,’ A Century-Old Mystery with Modern Lessons on Race, Police, Power
The black community affected by Texas’ first serial killer is filtered through a white lens in 'The Midnight Assassin.'
One of Texas' best crime writers tackles a 100-year-old murder mystery in a book with urgent implications for modern policing, race and power....Read More
The Observer Review: James Presley’s The Phantom Killer
The Texarkana Moonlight Murders, a 1946 series of slayings, shootings and beatings in and near the Texas-Arkansas border city, were committed by a "Phantom Kill...Read More
Attorney/Author David Berg on Houston, Brotherhood and Woody Harrelson
David Berg, a veteran Texas attorney, mines the intersections of family, justice and mortality in his new book Run, Brother, Run: A Memoir of Murder in my Famil...Read More