How It Works

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Genealogists have discovered that many celebrities share a family tree with some very important historical figures. Meghan Markle and Winston Churchill are sixth cousins five times removed, while actress Helena Bonham Carter is related, by marriage,

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

Writer's Digest

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Writing a memoir requires a lot of searching for the truth—questioning what you think you know, digging up the past to ask what really happened, hauling secrets out of the back of the closet, and comparing different people’s recollections in an effor

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO — Sara Paretsky returned to the scene of the crime. It was early June and traffic in River North on a Saturday morning was slow and quiet. Pet owners, pooches, strollers and the smell of toast. Paretsky was walking her dog along the north bra

PLAY

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FORMAT PS5, PS4 / ETA 2021 / PUB FROGWARES DEV FROGWARES / PLAYERS TBC Young Sherlock is 21 and taking in the sun and sights of the Mediterranean-inspired island of Cordona. Not one to avoid tragedy, soon the great detective is embroiled in solving

The Paris Review

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Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by signing up for the Re

The Millions

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I love stories told by the supposedly innocent bystander; the less charismatic best friend; the hapless fan or scholar whose own life recedes in the shadow of their subject of adoration. The post Observers, Bystanders, and Hangers On: Ten Novels with

The Atlantic

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Over the last decade, female writers have come to dominate crime fiction, a genre traditionally associated with men. But their appeal goes beyond the byline.

The Christian Science Monitor

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Our fascination with crime and mystery – most recently seen with the new TV adaptation of J.K. Rowling's 'Cormoran Strike' novels – reflects our cultural anxieties and desires, say experts.

The Threepenny Review

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The Witch Elm by Tana French. Viking/Penguin, 2018, $28.00 cloth, $17.00 paper. AT THE gates of the Underworld, wrote Virgil, rises an elm “of vast extent,” spreading its “branches and aged arms, around which false dreams cling and attach themselves

PC Gamer

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There are lots of things I want to do in a Sherlock Holmes game. I want to recline indolently in an opioid haze; to steeple my fingers and examine shirt cuffs. What I never want, however, is to stop being Holmes and instead control a reeking urchin t

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

The Christian Science Monitor

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This clever work of meta-fiction is told by a writer named Anthony Horowitz, who has been asked by a former detective to look into a most unusual murder.

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

Literary Hub

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Today we’re pleased to announce the launch of CrimeReads, a new website showcasing the best writing from the worlds of crime, mystery, and thrillers.  Readers ask questions, lots of them. Every time we turn a page, there’s a kind of interrogation hap

BBC History Magazine

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“Arthur Conan Doyle hadn’t practised for ten years due to the suc- cess of his Sherlock Holmes books, but was so keen to get out to the Boer War that he signed up with a field hospital as a surgeon. The war was also an excuse for him to leave his per

Writer's Digest

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Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference (MCWC) Offering a mixed-genre emerging writers’ workshop for those who are attending a conference for the first time as well as seminars on publishing for seasoned writers ready to publish their manuscript, MCWC ha

Total Film

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SHERLOCK AT THIS! MORI-ARTFUL ARTH-DECENT SEE WATSON ELSEWHERE SIGN OF THE BORE MOVIE OF THE MONTH WHY MILLIE BOBBY BROWN’S ENOLA IS A TRUE DETECTIVE

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

The Critic Magazine

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THE MUSIC IMMEDIATELY TRIGGERSa response. The graphics follow. And then there is David Suchet. For 13 seasons, from 1989 to 2013, Poirot provided a comfort blanket for Britain. Such style! Such a world of ease! Agatha Christie is all that is required

TIME

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“WHY IS IT THAT WE HAVE SUCH A NEED FOR murder mystery,” asks Susan Ryeland, the narrator of British author Anthony Horowitz’s new novel, Magpie Murders, “and what is it that attracts us—the crime or the solution? Do we have some primal need of blood

The Millions

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I couldn’t help but feel that the narrator was wearing brass knuckles spelling out “postmodern” and trying, repeatedly, to punch me in the face. The post Where Randomness and Madness Reign appeared first on The Millions.

Writing Magazine

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Fashion plays a big part in writing, as it does in so many walks of life. I mean literary fashion, by the way – if writing success depended on having elegant dress sense, I’d have abandoned hope long ago. The harsh reality is that if the type of stor

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

Woman

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David Tennant stars as Phileas Fogg in this new adaptation of Jules Verne’s novel. Phileas is joined on his voyage by sidekick Passepartout (Ibrahim Koma) and journalist Abigail Fix (Leonie Benesch).  The cookery show returned earlier this year afte

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

Literary Hub

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There’s something reassuring about reading a story in which a heroic detective saves the day. Maybe it’s through tracking down a killer; maybe it’s finding a missing person. There’s that sense of closure, that sense that the protagonist has done the

Fleurieu Living Magazine

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by Mark Laurie. by Hannah Kent Published by Picador ISBN 9781743534908 $32.99 The award-winning author of Burial Rites has transferred her imaginative power and luminous writing to Ireland in the 1820s, delivering a story located in the liminal world

The Paris Review

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I’ve been tempted to write more directly about my life, but the way I apprehended this book was as a work of imagination.