Why So Much Suspicion of Psychology in Thrillers?

“On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I’m giving serious thought to eating your wife.” ​-Hannibal Lecter ​ ​There’s near-universal consensus that America is in the midst of a mental health crisis. Following the isolation and uncertainties of the pandemic, forty percent of parents reported being worried that their child is […]

Interview With Robert Rosenberg

Robert Rosenberg is Professor of English and teaches fiction courses at Bucknell. He holds an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kyrgyzstan, as a Fulbright Scholar in India, and has lived and taught in both Istanbul and on the White Mountain Apache Reservation. His first novel, This […]

Interview With Leonard Krishtalka

TSM: To start off, can you tell us a little bit about yourself? What might our readers know you from? LK: I’m Canadian, born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, and educated in the humanities (English, History) and natural sciences (zoology, anthropology, evolutionary biology, paleontology) at universities in Montreal, Alberta, Kansas, and Texas. As a paleontologist, […]