Death & the humanities, or what we can learn from crime fiction
Australian Academy of the Humanities 2025-05-09
Summary:
There has long been a stigma around reading crime fiction. In an infamous literary putdown published in The New Yorker in 1945, Edmund Wilson described fans of crime fiction as “habitually on the defensive, and all their talk about ‘well-written’ mysteries is simply an excuse for their vice, like the reasons that the alcoholic can […]
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