Strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. A Gentleman and a Thief • The Case of the Murderous Dr Cream • Empire of Deception (Algonquin Books/HarperCollins Canada) Website: www.deanjobb.com Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y935u82h
Questions Mount Over a Star Scholar’s Life and Career www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
Cambridge Professor’s Jason Arday’s Work Challenged Ahead of Book LaunchA knife-wielding masked man. A pig’s head outside his parents’ door. Running 30 marathons in 35 days. The Cambridge professor Jason Arday, accused of plagiarism, says he’s been through it all. Not eve...www.nytimes.comOpinion: The shipriders of the Salish Sea demonstrate how Canada and the U.S. can still work together /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: The shipriders of the Salish Sea demonstrate how Canada and the U.S. can still work togetherShipriders are only one example of continued Canada-U.S. co-operation driven by geographywww.theglobeandmail.com12 Must-Read Books of August 2026 chireviewofbooks.com/2026/08/03/1... via @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
12 Must-Read Books of August 2026 - Chicago Review of BooksCome the dog days of summer, when the heat begins to grind you down and the days start to blend, there’s nothing better than encountering a story that will provide a spark of excitement. Maybe a littl...chireviewofbooks.comAmerican Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda | Washington Independent Review of Books www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/a...
American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda | Washington Independent Review of BooksThe Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com'He has repudiated the commitments of previous presidents and Congresses, repudiated his own previous commitments...rendering the word of the government of the U.S. virtually without worth.' Globe editorial: The waning weight of the word of the U.S. president www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
Globe editorial: The waning weight of the word of the U.S. presidentDonald Trump has demolished the trust built up by his predecessorswww.theglobeandmail.com$2m crime novel deal collapses amid questions over AI use Agents withdraw Jerry Falade’s hotly anticipated debut after saying they can no longer authenticate ‘how the manuscript evolved’ www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
$2m crime novel deal collapses amid questions over AI useAgents withdraw Jerry Falade’s hotly anticipated debut after saying they can no longer authenticate ‘how the manuscript evolved’www.theguardian.comTunnel 13 A botched 1923 train robbery in Oregon’s Siskiyou Mountains left four men dead, led to an international manhunt, and helped usher forensic science into the modern age. www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...
The Botched Train Robbery That Changed American ForensicsIn 1923, three brothers blew up a mail train in Oregon’s Siskiyou Mountains, killed four men, and vanished. Julian Smith unravels America’s forgotten true crime.www.altaonline.comThese Italian Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School. They Found Ancient Roman Ruins Hidden in the Basement www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
These Italian Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School. They Found Ancient Roman Ruins Hidden in the BasementStudents at a high school in Rome stumbled upon a well-preserved villa that dates to the mid-second century C.E. Eventually, archaeologists hope to open the sprawling space to the publicwww.smithsonianmag.com'The irony of Mr. Trump trying to bash Canada into submission with tariffs is that they hurt Americans – but could end up helping Canadians better understand each other.' Globe editorial: The accidental tourist upside of U.S. tariffs /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
Globe editorial: The accidental tourist upside of U.S. tariffsCanadians are shunning the U.S., hurting U.S. workers, but perhaps helping us to better understand our countrywww.theglobeandmail.comOpinion: AI companies are destroying books. What will they come for next? /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: AI companies are destroying books. What will they come for next?Anthropic has purchased – and destroyed – millions of books in pursuit of their content, often in batches of tens of thousandswww.theglobeandmail.com'This will be an important teaching moment for writers with aspirations to become serious bankable authors. The lesson: stay the hell away from AI.' AI Questions Spoil Book & Movie Heat On Unpublished Debut Novel ‘Call Me, I’ll Hide The Body’ – The Dish deadline.com/2026/07/ai-q... via @deadline.com
AI Questions Spoil Book & Movie Heat On 'Call Me, I'll Hide The Body' NovelThat screeching sound you heard from international publishers and film rights buyers was an abrupt application of the brakes after a fevered pursuit of the unpublished debut novel.deadline.comDid Charles Dickens's Bleak House Inspire Murder on the Orient Express? crimereads.com/did-charles-... via @crimereads.bsky.social
Did Charles Dickens’s Bleak House Inspire Murder on the Orient Express?This post contains spoilers for Murder on the Orient Express. In 2013, the official estate of Agatha Christie posted a bit of trivia to its Facebook. “Did you know,” they asked their fo…crimereads.comThe Inside Story of Stalin's Obsession with Killing Trotsky crimereads.com/the-inside-s... via @crimereads.bsky.social
The Inside Story of Stalin’s Obsession with Killing TrotskyHow Stalin Seized the Revolution Leon Trotsky’s fall from revolutionary hero to hunted exile ranks among the most dramatic reversals in modern political history. As Vladimir Lenin’s most brilliant …crimereads.comZiegfeld’s Folly: The Actress, the Showman & the Missing Jewels Florenz Ziegfeld & his leading lady, Anna Held, insisted they were robbed in 1906. The police suspected it was a publicity stunt. My latest #truecrime column for @elleryqueenmm.bsky.social: elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/the-crime-sc...
Stranger Than Fiction - July 2026 - Ellery QueenJuly 2026 Ziegfeld’s Folly: The Actress, the Showman, and the Mystery of the Missing Jewels by Dean Jobb The overnight train from Baltimore rattled and clankedelleryqueenmysterymagazine.com'Acclaimed author and historian Henry Wiencek tells the interwoven stories of these brilliant but flawed giants of American art and architecture.' From my review of Stan & Gus (@fsgbooks.bsky.social) in @elleryqueenmm.bsky.social: elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/the-crime-sc...
'Painstaking research and penetrating insights make this a must-read that exposes the horrendous costs of misplaced loyalty, unchecked power and political expediency' From my review in @elleryqueenmm.bsky.social elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/the-crime-sc... @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
How three newsrooms are charting different paths for AI use In our recent research, we examined how three different media outlets — Reuters, the BBC, and The Guardian — were deploying AI in their workflows. @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/how-...
How three newsrooms are charting different paths for AI useIn our recent research, we examined how three different media outlets — Reuters, the BBC, and The Guardian — were deploying AI in their workflows.www.niemanlab.org'The stories run the gamut from assault to murder, with segues into art theft, blackmail, wrongful convictions & rehabilitation of offenders' From my review of Best True Crime Stories 2025 (@penzlerpublishers.bsky.social) in @elleryqueenmm.bsky.social: elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/the-crime-sc...
'There’s plenty of food for thought here about why we’re drawn to true crime and the macabre, and how a good scare now and then just might be good for us.' From my review of Morbidly Curious (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social) in @elleryqueenmm.bsky.social: elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/the-crime-sc...
