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A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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I Harbor a Stillborn Scribe of the German Tongue in Me

On Germans and Jewishness
Peter Wortsman
May 13, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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The Colt-Adams Affair, 1841

Notes on a murder
Harold Schechter
June 25, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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The “American Tragedy” Murder, 1906

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
March 4, 2019
The tombstone of Naomi Wise.
Essays

The Murder of “Omie Wise,” 1808

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
June 29, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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The “Sausage Vat Murder,” 1897

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
February 18, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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The Kidnapping of Little Charley Ross, 1874

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
May 14, 2018
Illustration of Matterhorn (mountain).
Essays

A Mountaineer’s Imagination

Journeying up the Matterhorn
Veronica Tomasic
July 9, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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“The Lonely Hearts Killer,” 1957-1958

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
March 18, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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Religion/Fundamentalism

A distinction
Feisal G. Mohamed
May 21, 2018
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The Trunk Murders, 1931

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
May 27, 2018