Senate candidate suing author and publisher of true crime book
Even now, in the age of completely pulverized attention spans, books can change the world. Specifically, they can change the course of electoral politics — especially when they contain damning… Read more »
Man on trial for murder after stealing a rare edition of The Wind in the Willows
An antiques dealer and author has been brutally murdered during a robbery to steal a rare first edition of The Wind in the Willows worth £50,000. Adrian Greenwood, who wrote books for The… Read more »
And the most checked out book from the UN Library is…
Try and guess what the most popular book at the UN Library is…Go ahead, we’ll wait. … … … Did you guess a guide to, literally, getting away with murder?… Read more »
Robert Durst can’t stop writing
(Note: Spoilers for the HBO miniseries The Jinx follow.) Robert Durst’s first wife, Kathleen, disappeared. Decades later, his good friend Susan Berman was murdered in Los Angeles. Soon after, in Galveston,… Read more »
Poetry vs. prose debate solved in Russia—with a knife
Last week in the land of Dostoyevsky and vodka, an enduring debate reopened when a 67-year-old man asserted his belief that “the only real literature is prose.” Unfortunately for him,… Read more »
Exile, assassins, and a probable answer behind the death of Pablo Neruda
Just as it turns out that Yasser Arafat may have been killed by radioactive poison, new evidence indicates that celebrated Chilean poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda may not have… Read more »
Chilean judge orders police to find mysterious man who may have killed Pablo Neruda
On Saturday, a Chilean judge ordered police to find the man who may have poisoned Pablo Neruda, two months after the poet’s body was exhumed and nearly forty years after… Read more »