Family
Nancy Drew and the Case of the Politically Incorrect Children’s Books
The young sleuth’s early mysteries were racist and anti-Semitic. Can problematic vintage texts still be valuable for kids?
By
Marjorie Ingall
· December 18, 2013
Book Reviews
Stranger Than Pulp Fiction
Crime writer Ed Lacy died 45 years ago. Few knew he was also a
New Yorker
contributor and communist darling.
By
Ron Capshaw
· January 7, 2013
Book Reviews
Bond. Jew Bond.
Jerome Charyn’s crowd-pleasing new mystery novel exiles his larger-than-life hero Isaac Sidel to Texas
By
Kinky Friedman
· October 24, 2012
Book Reviews
Easy Call
A case for Walter Mosley’s inclusion in the American Jewish literary canon
By
Harold Heft
· April 14, 2010
United States
In Her Own Backyard
Sara Paretsky on her latest leap from crime fiction and what her famous heroine has in common with I.B. Singer
By
Sara Ivry
· January 22, 2008
Book Reviews
Our Man in Bethlehem
Matt Beynon Rees creates a new kind of sleuth
By
Daniel Gross
· March 13, 2007
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