March can be a long month; waiting for spring to finally hit, it’s easy to duck back under the covers to hibernate—and any good hibernation requires good books to keep the blood pumping and the brain active. These 10 thrillers are ideal picks for the purpose, filled with surprises, heart-stopping shocks, and characters who make it all seem very […]
Serial killers are disproportionately common in fiction (well, we hope, anyway). There’s just something darkly fascinating about human beings who so completely slip the bonds of civilization—aand that fascination occasionally inspires an author to come up with a killer so deranged, the violence becomes something like poetry. The list of bizarre serial killers is long […]
Everyone knows that magic isn’t real; when you go to a stage magician’s show, you’re the willing party to an illusion executed by a master. The best magicians are experts in misdirection: drawing your eye away from the real trick, fanning of a deck of cards with one hand while palming a single card in the other. This technique […]