The Rap Sheet

Just when I thought the publication of “best of 2020” lists was done and dusted, here come a few stragglers demanding attention. In The Hu...

• Earlier this month, I noted that among the authors whose work I read for the first time in 2020 were Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz, w...

• Down & Out: The Magazine , founded as a quarterly print/e-book periodical and helmed by the ever-resilient Rick Ollerman, debuted in t...

(Editor’s note: The following article comes from Fraser Massey , a freelance journalist living in East London​, England, who has contributed...

• Agatha Christie fans are familiar with Ariadne Oliver , a fictional mystery writer who occasionally (in novels such as Cards on the Table...

Not content with already having announced their nominees for “ the best crime novels of 2020 ,” CrimeReads editors have followed that up by ...

Further adding to our inventory of “best crime novels of 2020” lists , here comes Shots critic and blogger Ayo Onatade with a very fine top-...

• Coming off his recent success with the Netflix mini-series The Queen’s Gambit , filmmaker Scott Frank is said to now be “working on the d...