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  • Jonathan Kellerman in 1995
    Jonathan Kellerman in 1995
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    When Whodunits Become Woke

    Jonathan Kellerman’s Milo Sturgis is the bestselling, longest-running gay detective in crime fiction history. Could Kellerman create him today?

    byZac Bissonnette
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    (Collage Tablet Magazine; original images Series Books)
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    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?

    byMarjorie Ingall
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    (Collage Tablet Magazine)
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    Stranger Than Pulp Fiction

    Crime writer Ed Lacy died 45 years ago. Few knew he was also a New Yorker contributor and communist darling.

    byRon Capshaw
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    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original images Shutterstock and Joe Philipson/Flickr)
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    Bond. Jew Bond.

    Jerome Charyn’s crowd-pleasing new mystery novel exiles his larger-than-life hero Isaac Sidel to Texas

    byKinky Friedman
  • Walter Mosley.(Paul Hawthorne/Getty Images)
    Walter Mosley.(Paul Hawthorne/Getty Images)
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    Easy Call

    A case for Walter Mosley’s inclusion in the American Jewish literary canon

    byHarold Heft
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    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

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    Our Man in Bethlehem

    Matt Beynon Rees creates a new kind of sleuth

    byDaniel Gross
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