The Rap Sheet, True Crime and White Collar Wire
We are honored to be added as a “True Crime” blog by The Rap Sheet, one of the world’s leading crime-fiction blogs: Since it spun off...
Red Harvest: Crime Fiction and Gospel Conviction
Pop culture and theology mix fruitfully in pulp-crime fiction. Here’s a four-part course from 2012: Red Harvest: Crime Fiction and Gospel Conviction . Here’s the blurb...
Criminals In Ties: Contract Law and Reservoir Dogs
The interplay between law — especially criminal law — and theology is more subterranean and nuanced than many give it credit for. The same is...
John D. MacDonald and King Saul
We worked John D. MacDonald’s private eye, Travis McGee, into this discussion of King Saul and the young David: Spare the King and Seize the...
George V. Higgins and the Archeology of White-Collar Crime
In popular culture, business-crime is presented cartoon-fashion. In movies, on television or in novels, businesspeople who are corporate targets of government investigations come across as...
Why’d He Do It?
Here’s a note from Professor Ellen Podgor about an article on Sentencing the Why of White Collar Crime by Todd Haugh (Illinois Institute of Technology...
Browning: “the poet, not the automatic”
Does reading literary fiction really increase your social intelligence? Here: I Know How You’re Feeling, I Read Chekhov Maybe. But what about crime fiction? ...
Crime and T.S. Eliot
Today (September 26th) is the birthday of American-born (but eventually British-subject) poet T.S. Eliot (1888-1965). He wrote little about crime except Murder in the Cathedral...
Crime Fiction: The Sunday New York Times Book Review
This weekend’s crime-fiction review here — NYT Crime Fiction — from Marilyn Stasio and the New York Times....
Janet Maslin on Elmore Leonard
A tribute to Elmore Leonard, from Janet Maslin, here — Elmore Leonard – A Man of Few, Yet Perfect, Words “His characters, as ever, were...