Rachel Monroe is a writer living in Marfa, Texas.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Crime and Publishing: The Story of Jack Abbott and Norman Mailer
Remembering Jack Abbott, the convicted murderer who was Norman Mailer’s literary protégé....
The Spirit Is Willing: On Colin Dickey’s “Ghostland”
Rachel Monroe reviews Colin Dickey’s “Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places.”...
Seeing Flock of Dimes
Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner has released her first solo album, performing as Flock of Dimes....
Death Stories
Rachel Monroe discusses a book on amateur sleuthing by Deborah Halber....
Anders Behring Breivik and the Massacre on Utøya: on Aage Borchgrevink’s "A Norwegian Tragedy"
When a person commits an atrocity, our immediate, stuttering questions are why and how? Can reading a mass murderer’s own account answer those questions?...
Common Ground: Brenda Stevenson’s “The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins”
ON THE MORNING of March 16, 1991, a 15-year-old girl named Latasha Harlins stopped by a liquor store near her home ...
The War on Murder: Sharon Tate and the Victims' Rights Movement
ROSIE BLANCHARD BEGAN SENDING Mother’s Day cards to Doris Tate in the 1990s, even though the two women had ...
