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Book cover of "Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers" by Caroline Fraser. The design features a monochrome photo of a man's face—partially obscured—with a superimposed industrial landscape and plume of smoke, blending the imagery of a serial killer with a polluted, foreboding environment. The title is in bold yellow text at the top, and the author's name appears at the bottom in yellow, noting her as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Prairie Fires".

The Crazy Wall

Caroline Fraser’s Murderland dismantles the voyeurism of true crime by tracing serial murder not to aberrant monsters but to the poisoned infrastructures, institutional apathy, and cultural amnesia that made their violence possible.

Podcasts That Unmask the Shadows of 2024

Let’s be honest: most podcasts are fluff, background noise for the doomscroll. But every so often, you stumble across a few that feel vital, like they’re speaking directly to the part of you that knows something’s deeply off. These are the ones that respect the work of Peter Dale Scott, understand that the CIA has been playing dirty for decades, and quietly agree that Oliver Stone might have nailed it with JFK. From deep-state machinations and true crime to the gangsters, spies, and outright monsters shaping our unnerving present, these podcasts don’t just expose the cracks—they show you how deep they go.