‘Domestic Suspense’ Novels – How Women Writers Revamped Crime Fiction

As opposed to the hard-bitten, urban lowlife milieu of male writers such as Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane, “the terror is lurking either in the home, or just outside of it, in the periphery. It makes everything seem unreliable … Even relationships that are supposed to be bedrocks, like marriage, like family, like friendship, or even in some degree, the workplace.”

That Other Museum (Re)Opening This Weekend

“The earliest Beaux-Arts building in the United States, the Morgan Memorial was conceived and largely paid for by the financier J. Pierpont Morgan, a Hartford native who named it in honor of his father. In 1915, it opened to the public, 73 years after the museum itself was founded by Daniel Wadsworth. (The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest continuously open art museum in the country.)”