Sarah Weinman, Esquire

Sarah Weinman

Esquire

New York, NY, United States

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Past:
  • Esquire
  • ELLE Magazine (US)
  • InsideHook
  • BuzzFeed News
  • Longreads
  • BuzzFeed
  • The New Republic
  • TIME.com
  • National Post
  • The Daily Beast

Past articles by Sarah:

Richard Osman on 'Thursday Murder,' 'The Last Devil To Die,' and His Mystery Empire

Meet the game show host turned bestselling novelist behind the 'Thursday Murder Club' phenomenon, making waves with 21-year-olds and 99-year-olds alike. → Read More

Rereading Alice Sebold’s ‘Lucky’ After Wrongful Rape Conviction

After a wrongful conviction, the 1999 memoir recalling the author’s rape now feels even more like a horror story. → Read More

For the Spy Novelist Robert Littell, The Cold War Never Ended

Two months before the election, I decided to read through the complete works of Robert Littell. They number more than 20 novels, from The Defection of A.J. Lewinter (1973) through to his newest, Comrade Koba, published in November. I had the sense that Littell’s particular style of spy novel would speak to me when American […] → Read More

The Best Thrillers Of 2018, According To One Of The Best Crime Writers

The Real Lolita author Sarah Weinman on the crime writing that burrowed deep into her psyche and stayed there for a long, long time. → Read More

Vladimir Nabokov’s Other Favorite Crime

While the Sally Horner case gave 'Lolita' its main character, the Edward Grammer case gave the book an almost perfect murder. → Read More

How a Forgotten 1903 Murder Spree Became America's First Modern Mass...

On August 13, 1903, a man named Gilbert Twigg opened fire in the middle of Winfield, Kansas, killing nine and injuring dozens. There was no motive, and no one had ever seen anything like it before,... → Read More

How Harper Lee Lost Her Voice

Her last years were mired in scandal, and more struggles over her unpublished works may lie ahead. → Read More

Making a Murderer’s Lawyer Hero

Dean Strang wrote a book about a 1917 miscarriage of justice in Milwaukee. The parallels with Steven Avery's case are striking. → Read More

The Case of the Disappearing Black Detective Novel

Hughes Allison was a black mystery writer with promising future. What went wrong? → Read More

5 Must-Read Agatha Christie Novels

Celebrate the mystery master on her 125th birthday → Read More

Elisabeth de Mariaffi's The Devil You Know, reviewed: The stuff of nightmares

Elisabeth de Mariaffi's debut novel is a perfect mixture of legitimate fear and hyperbole. → Read More

Crimewave: Goodbye to the best crime fiction of 2014

The crime fiction genre in general is in an excellent place right now, and Canadian mystery writers are, as ever, leading the way. → Read More

Crimewave: Walt, Last of the Independents, Visions

This month's crime fiction dares to go where others fear to tread → Read More

Crimewave: Black Rock, Carnival, The Killer Trail

Sarah Weinman looks at new crime novels from John McFetridge, J. Robert Janes, and D.B. Carew → Read More

Novels About Famous Writers' Wives & Susan Scarf Merrell's Shirley

The demand for fiction cast in the template of “the creative person's wife” shows little sign of abating. → Read More

Crimewave: Silence for the Dead, A Siege of Bitterns, Waste No Tears

This month’s crime fiction has shell-shocked horror, birds on the brain and a misogynist turn from a Governor General’s Award winner → Read More

Crimewave: Cold Mourning, The Licence of War, Kill Fee

An Aboriginal sleuth in Ottawa, a 17th-century spy-about-town and a billionaire bites the dust in this month’s crime fiction → Read More

Crimewave: The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, The Two Sisters of Borneo, Death of a Patriot

Sarah Weinman looks at new novels by Alan Bradley, Ian Hamilton, and Don Gutteridge → Read More

Crimewave: Corpse Flower, Boiling Point & Cold Cases, and the best of 2013

Reefer madness, Prairie stories and the best of the year’s crime books → Read More

Crimewave: Blood on a Saint, Really Dead, Up in Smoke

Compelling heroes make for a fine round of crime fiction → Read More