The criminal neglect of detective fiction
Why does the academy treat the genre so disrespectfully? Richard Bradford investigates
Why does the academy treat the genre so disrespectfully? Richard Bradford investigates
Richard Bradford shares an author’s infuriation that the ‘mongrel subject’ of literary studies fails to reflect real-life talk about literature
Scholars should not be walled off from mainstream biography’s playground of unlicensed fun, says Richard Bradford
Matthew Reisz considers why we are still talking obsessively about the playwright 400 years after he shuffled off this mortal coil
As managing editor of Clues: A Journal of Detection, the only US academic journal on mystery, detective and crime fiction, I share Richard Bradford’s concern (“Beaten to a pulp”, Culture, 4 June)...