A Reader’s Dozen for July
From parasites to romance, Harlem history to thrillers, hot reads are on their way for summer
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true crime
Diddy Meets the Algorithm
Reckoning exposes decades of allegations — and shows how the machinery that once protected celebrity power is collapsing in real time.
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Strong on the Rideouts, Weak on the Revolution
Sarah Weinman’s ‘Without Consent’ wants to chart the fight to outlaw marital rape
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Serial Killer, Interrupted
‘Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers’ offers a sympathetic reappraisal of sex worker who killed seven
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The Counterfactual Adulation of Amanda Knox
The claim there is ‘no evidence’ against Knox in the 2007 death of her housemate rears its head yet again
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Ed Gein, American Monster
A series of flashbacks, nested like a Russian doll, tell a killer’s macabre story
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‘Only Murders In The Building’, They Wrote
Steve Martin, Martin Short (and Selena Gomez) together again, living the true crime dream
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