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Crime and Publishing: The Story of Jack Abbott and Norman Mailer
Remembering Jack Abbott, the convicted murderer who was Norman Mailer’s literary protégé....
Rachel Monroe
Rachel Monroe is a writer living in Marfa, Texas.
Articles
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 in South Los Angeles. She walked to the back of the store, grabbed a carton of orange juice, and stuck ...
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 never met. One day in August, Blanchard trekked to the Tate family house for the first time; P.J., Doris&...
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