Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession

ISBN-13: 9780062839886 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 416 str.

Sarah Weinman; Patrick Radden Keefe

Recenzje

"Irresistible." - People, "Best New Books of the Week"

"This spine-tingling true crime anthology....[looks] beyond killers and victims and at systemic and institutionalized depravity." - Shelf Awareness, starred review

"Moves the needle closer to a version of the genre where crime is systemic abuse, baked into the work of institutions designed to protect us." - Jezebel

"Superb . . . one of the best true crime books of the year." - NPR.org

"An excellent anthology . . . Weinman has done more than create entertainment . . . she challenges the reader to use true crime as a lens to explore the world around us." - BookPage

"Thoughtful and wide-ranging. . . . The superior quality of these essays begs for future volumes." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"With nuance and sensitivity, Weinman curates essays that consider the explosion of interest in true crime, stories from the perspectives of victims, and tales that present new information about notorious killers. . . . This enthralling volume insists that there can and should be humanity within true crime." - Library Journal (starred review)

"Essential reading for all true crime fans." - Booklist

O autorze

Sarah Weinman is the author of Scoundrel and The Real Lolita and the editor, most recently, of Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit & Obsession. She was a 2020 National Magazine Award finalist for reporting and a Calderwood Journalism Fellow at MacDowell, and her work has appeared in New York magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, and the Washington Post. Weinman writes the crime column for the New York Times Book Review and lives in New York City and Northampton, MA.