A Lifetime of Fighting for Justice
Islands, Displacement & the Fiction of Sovereignty
A Mystery Brings The Queen of Crime Back to Life
Arundhati Roy’s searing new memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me, reads like a courtroom drama crossed with a family saga — because that’s exactly what it is. From fighting childhood evictions to contempt charges, Roy inherited something more valuable than property from her mother. A back bone.
A Mystery Brings The Queen of Crime Back to Life
Islands, Displacement & the Fiction of Sovereignty
A Mystery Brings The Queen of Crime Back to Life
In Amanda Chapman's pitch-perfect Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library, a ghost (maybe?) appears in a Greenwich Village townhouse. Satan's Whisker cocktails, a poisoning of a not-so-popular victim, a handsome detective in (shudder) brown suits, a closed circle of suspects. What could be better?
Islands, Displacement & the Fiction of Sovereignty
Islands, Displacement & the Fiction of Sovereignty
Islands, Displacement & the Fiction of Sovereignty
Tom Lutz’s Chagos Archipelago turns the aftershocks of colonialism into a darkly compelling noir set in the Indian Ocean. In our Q & A, he talks about writing thrillers that ask hard moral questions and the real history beneath the fiction.
Your Digital Footprint Is the New Crime Scene
"A Case of Mice and Murder": A Defense Of The Solitary Mind
The Year's Best Legal Thriller Isn’t on the Crime Shelf
The Epistolary Novel Gets a Tech Upgrade In The Killer Question, Janice Hallett brilliantly drops us into a world where digital footprints — texts, emails, group chats — become the real evidence. You think the truth is in a sworn affidavit, but it’s really in the passive-aggressive WhatsApp messages.
The Year's Best Legal Thriller Isn’t on the Crime Shelf
"A Case of Mice and Murder": A Defense Of The Solitary Mind
The Year's Best Legal Thriller Isn’t on the Crime Shelf
For anyone who's ever shouted “Don’t say anything!” at a TV interrogation…Bruce Holsinger’s Culpability in this genre-defying novel, a self-driving car—and its data—might be the star witness. Tense, timely, and impossible to put down, it’s a courtroom thriller with a Silicon Valley twist.
And yes, of course the family talks to the detective without a lawyer.
"A Case of Mice and Murder": A Defense Of The Solitary Mind
"A Case of Mice and Murder": A Defense Of The Solitary Mind
"A Case of Mice and Murder": A Defense Of The Solitary Mind
I’ve always felt a little too seen by Maugham’s line: "Conversation after a time bores me… Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe." If you’re a fellow introvert who finds sanctuary in books, you’re going to love Gabriel Ward. He’s the book-loving barrister in this delightful, smart cozy by Sally Smith.Add a short description.
"In Cold Blood," But Make it Autofiction
I Love Dick: The True Crime Years
"The Four Spent the Day Together" takes Chris Kraus (creator of "I Love Dick") from Marfa to Minnesota's Iron Range, where meth and murder blur into something haunting. Like Capote, but messier. No clean resolution; no linear narrative.
“Mississippi Blue 42:” A Gonzo Legal Brief for Paying College Athletes
Justice by Algorithm and Absurdity: Law, Trauma and the Windowless Courtroom Room
Justice by Algorithm and Absurdity: Law, Trauma and the Windowless Courtroom Room
Eli Cranor’s new novel is a fun, smart takedown of race, greed and the NCAA’s unpaid labor system
Justice by Algorithm and Absurdity: Law, Trauma and the Windowless Courtroom Room
Justice by Algorithm and Absurdity: Law, Trauma and the Windowless Courtroom Room
Justice by Algorithm and Absurdity: Law, Trauma and the Windowless Courtroom Room
I Spent Years in Family Court. The “Dream Hotel” and “Mothers and Sons” Capture How Quick Rulings Change Lives
What Stacey Abrams’s “Coded Justice” Taught Me About AI’s Ethical Frontier
Justice by Algorithm and Absurdity: Law, Trauma and the Windowless Courtroom Room
What Stacey Abrams’s “Coded Justice” Taught Me About AI’s Ethical Frontier
A Gripping Legal Thriller Where Due Diligence Meets Rogue AI
When Online Obsession Becomes a Legal Weapon
Nicci Cloke’s “Her Many Faces” explores how a woman’s teenage browsing history — and a conspiracy site called The Rabbit Hole — becomes central to a gripping courtroom battle
When Fiction Delivers Justice
A Novel That Asks If Affordable Housing Is a Fairy Tale
Summering in the Hamptons? Better Lawyer Up
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Dream Count” reimagines a high-profile sexual assault case, giving a voice to a victim the legal system failed
Summering in the Hamptons? Better Lawyer Up
A Novel That Asks If Affordable Housing Is a Fairy Tale
Summering in the Hamptons? Better Lawyer Up
Franklin’s “Great Black Hope” delivers literary firepower; Burke’s “The Note” is a twisty legal thriller
A Novel That Asks If Affordable Housing Is a Fairy Tale
A Novel That Asks If Affordable Housing Is a Fairy Tale
A Novel That Asks If Affordable Housing Is a Fairy Tale
Emily Hunt Kivel’s “Dwelling” turns eviction, displacement, and late-stage capitalism into a dark, fun surreal fable
Abigail Dean’s “The Death of Us” Moved Me…
This Wild Novel Made Me Rethink Everything About Easy Money
The Constitution Didn’t Save Him. Google Did.
...and left me wondering about the place of victims’ testimony in sentencing
The Constitution Didn’t Save Him. Google Did.
This Wild Novel Made Me Rethink Everything About Easy Money
The Constitution Didn’t Save Him. Google Did.
I kept waiting for the Constitution to show up in Kevin Nguyen’s fantastic dystopian novel “My Documents.” It never did.
This Wild Novel Made Me Rethink Everything About Easy Money
This Wild Novel Made Me Rethink Everything About Easy Money
This Wild Novel Made Me Rethink Everything About Easy Money
Megan Abbott’s “El Dorado Drive” is a vodka-soaked ride through suburban angst and the seductive logic of a scam
“The Silver State”: A Masterclass in What Law School Doesn’t Teach You
“The Silver State”: A Masterclass in What Law School Doesn’t Teach You
“The Silver State”: A Masterclass in What Law School Doesn’t Teach You
Gabriel Urza doesn’t just give us a legal thriller; he gives us a raw, honest window into the human cost of justice
When Hamilton & Burr Were Co-Counsel
“The Silver State”: A Masterclass in What Law School Doesn’t Teach You
“The Silver State”: A Masterclass in What Law School Doesn’t Teach You
“The Girl from Greenwich Street” brings America’s first murder trial to life and two other excellent historical courtroom dramas
Legal Briefs: Summer’s 5 Hottest Courtroom Novels
“The Silver State”: A Masterclass in What Law School Doesn’t Teach You
Legal Briefs: Summer’s 5 Hottest Courtroom Novels
LawFi on the Rocks: Beach Reads with a Legal Twist
A Bad Outcome? When a Lawyer Needs a Legal Team of Their Own
A Bad Outcome? When a Lawyer Needs a Legal Team of Their Own
A Bad Outcome? When a Lawyer Needs a Legal Team of Their Own
Jon Hickey’s riveting Big Chief follows a tribal “fixer” all to well-aware he’s barreling head-first down a slippery slope
Michael Connelly’s “Nightshade” Kicks Off a Bold New Series
A Bad Outcome? When a Lawyer Needs a Legal Team of Their Own
A Bad Outcome? When a Lawyer Needs a Legal Team of Their Own
Sunshine Noir meets legal realism in a procedural set on Catalina Island with the haunting question: Can justice survive the system?
Voter Fraud but Make it Constitutional
A Bad Outcome? When a Lawyer Needs a Legal Team of Their Own
Voter Fraud but Make it Constitutional
How Shteyngart’s “Vera, or Faith” Inverts American History to Redefine Citizenship
Waiting for the Next Mandalorian Episode, I Ended Up Reading a Star Wars Lawsuit
Waiting for the Next Mandalorian Episode, I Ended Up Reading a Star Wars Lawsuit
Waiting for the Next Mandalorian Episode, I Ended Up Reading a Star Wars Lawsuit
A Mandalorian Reading List Includes a Star Wars Lawsuit, Graphic Novels and Publisher Picks
“The Payback”: How to Rob a System That’s Already Robbing You
Waiting for the Next Mandalorian Episode, I Ended Up Reading a Star Wars Lawsuit
Waiting for the Next Mandalorian Episode, I Ended Up Reading a Star Wars Lawsuit
Kashana Cauley’s debut is Ocean’s Eleven — if Danny Ocean worked minimum wage jobs and owed $200K in student loans.