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A Field Guide to the Dark, Sexy Swamp of American Literature

With its bracing studies of fiction’s secrets, this 66-year-old work of literary criticism still surprises and delights.

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4 Novels Filled With Slow- Burn Dread

Our columnist on new horror fiction, including the latest from Stephen Graham Jones and Tananarive Due.

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America’s Answer to John le Carré

David McCloskey, a C.I.A. analyst turned spy novelist, has just released his fifth book, “London Station.”

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