More essays by Radha Vatsal
Essays in CrimeReads
“Why Spiral Doesn’t Deserve To Be Compared to The Wire”
“What We Owe To Wilkie Collins’ Woman in White: On The 19th Century Origins of the Modern Psychological Thriller”
“Searching For Crime Fiction In Mumbai’s Beloved English-Language Bookstore”
“Wilkie Collins and the Prison of Marriage”
“Miss Sherlock is the Smartest, Most Intuitive Sherlock Holmes Adaptation We’ve Seen in Awhile”
Essays in Kirkus:
“How Sisters in Crime Is Helping to Diversify the Mystery World”
“Rediscovering Fantomas: The French Crime Novels Were Early Book-to-Film Adaptations”
“The Writer’s Life: How One Mystery Novelist Makes It All Work”
“Bouchercon: The Mystery World’s Annual Family Reunion”
“Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Case of the Missing Novelist”
“Beyond Nordic Noir: On International Crime Fiction, Part 2”
“Got 15 Minutes? Read a Crime Story”
“True Crime Tales: What Do We Learn From Them?”
“The Forensics of Historical Crime Fiction”
“Revisiting the ‘Crime of the (Last) Century”
“Robert Harris Writes Thrillers—Even When He Doesn’t”
“Is Noir Possible in Iraq? On International Crime Fiction, Part I”
“How a Mystery Bookstore Thrives in the Age of Amazon”
“In Defense of Cozy Mysteries”
“What Classic Crime Novels Reveal About American Hopes and Fears”