Mystery Archives

June 21, 2021 3 min read

With their suggestive titles and gorgeous, pink-suffused covers, P. J. Vernon’s Bath Haus and Jonathan Parks-Ramage’s Yes, Daddy seem like...

A Pioneer Returns: Barbara Wilson’s Not the Real Jupiter

Katherine V. Forrest

Reviews

May 10, 2021 4 min read

If Barbara Wilson were a major league baseball player, she would be hailed as that rarest of the rare, a...

Robyn Gigl’s By Way of Sorrow Gives New Life (and a New Face) to the Legal Thriller

John Copenhaver

Reviews

May 5, 2021 2 min read

Representation in any genre is essential. Diverse voices can enliven and refresh well-worn genre territory, such as the legal thriller,...

Blackout is a Loving Homage to American Crime Dramas

John Copenhaver

Reviews

March 23, 2021 2 min read

Tried and true crime narratives sing when offered to the reader from the perspectives of traditionally underrepresented characters. Blackout, Marco...

Last Call is a Chilling Addition to the Gay Corner of the True-crime Genre

Tom Cardamone

Reviews

March 13, 2021 2 min read

Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York is a stunning addition to the...

Watch Her is a Standout Mystery and a Twisted Family Drama

John Copenhaver

Fiction

March 2, 2021 2 min read

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote “Character is plot, plot is character,” implying that to create successful fiction, these elements must...

C.S. Poe and Gregory Ashe Discuss Co-Authoring a Crime Novel

John Copenhaver

author interviews

January 23, 2021 8 min read

There’s this myth about the lone writer (often tortured, often male, often straight) hammering away at his Smith Corona typewriter,...

The Other Side of Forestlands Lake is an Intriguing Genre Mashup

Tara Scott

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January 22, 2021 2 min read

Twenty-six years ago, a little girl disappeared from the summer camp at Forestlands Lake in Upstate New York. A year...

The Unmasking Pushes the Boundaries of Convention

Anne Laughlin

Reviews

January 7, 2021 2 min read

There are numerous and quite specific sub-genres in mystery writing: police procedurals, mysteries featuring cats, cozy mysteries, psychological suspense. You...

The Watcher Balances a Noir Sensibility With a Sensitive Portrait of a Young Gay Man

John Copenhaver

Reviews

November 4, 2020 2 min read

It’s not unusual for LGBTQ+ people to play caretaker or fixer roles in their families—and of course, the irony is...

Reviews

A Long Journey for Memory: MariNaomi’s I Thought Your Loved Me

What We’re Reading: Pride Edition

June’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Books

Random

Author Toni Morrison on White Supremacy

Features

What We’re Reading: Pride Edition

Black, Queer, Trans, and Millennial: A New Generation of American Poetry: Part III

Black, Queer, Trans, and Millennial: A New Generation of American Poetry: Part I

Interviews

Translating the Body: An Interview with Lars Horn

WRITING IS ALWAYS COLLECTIVE: how we co-wrote a whole book and stayed friends

What Could Possibly Stop Us? An Interview with Cary Alan Johnson

Excerpts

In Bed with Joan Nestle

Read This! Excerpt from Trickster Academy by Jenny L. Davis

Read This! Excerpt from Thick City by Katie Jean Shinkle

Page-Turning Thrillers, Bath Haus and Yes, Daddy, Expose Power Dynamics Between Gay Men

A Pioneer Returns: Barbara Wilson’s Not the Real Jupiter

Robyn Gigl’s By Way of Sorrow Gives New Life (and a New Face) to the Legal Thriller

Blackout is a Loving Homage to American Crime Dramas

Last Call is a Chilling Addition to the Gay Corner of the True-crime Genre

Watch Her is a Standout Mystery and a Twisted Family Drama

C.S. Poe and Gregory Ashe Discuss Co-Authoring a Crime Novel

The Other Side of Forestlands Lake is an Intriguing Genre Mashup

The Unmasking Pushes the Boundaries of Convention

The Watcher Balances a Noir Sensibility With a Sensitive Portrait of a Young Gay Man

What We’re Reading: Pride Edition

Translating the Body: An Interview with Lars Horn

Silvera’s Prequel The First to Die Holds a Story for All Ages

Miah Jeffra takes on Corruption in American Gospel