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Megan Abbott on Criminal Conspiracies in the Fallen Suburbs

Megan Abbott on Criminal Conspiracies in the Fallen Suburbs

In Abbott's new thriller, three sisters in Grosse Pointe get drawn into an 'investment club.'

By Dwyer Murphy | June 6, 2025

White America Facing Its Ghosts: The Slow Unraveling of a Nation’s Suburbs

White America Facing Its Ghosts: The Slow Unraveling of a Nation’s Suburbs

Benjamin Herold on White Flight, Demographic Shifts, and Coming to Terms With the Racist Policies That Created a Crisis

By Benjamin Herold | January 23, 2024

The Wild, Wonderful, and Poetic World of Ralphie Parker

The Wild, Wonderful, and Poetic World of Ralphie Parker

Christmas Story Universe">Matt Mitchell on Midwestern Humorist Jean Shepherd and the Christmas Story Universe

By Matt Mitchell | December 14, 2022

John Cheever and Djuna Barnes, Patron Literary Saints of Suburbia and Bohemia, Died This Day in 1982.

John Cheever and Djuna Barnes, Patron Literary Saints of Suburbia and Bohemia, Died This Day in 1982.

Lives Lived on the Opposite Sides of the American Dream

By Jonny Diamond | June 18, 2021

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Storybound, Our Radio-Theater Podcast">On Storybound, Our Radio-Theater Podcast

By Storybound | January 26, 2021

Simon Han on What the Suburbs Can Tell Us About the American Way of Life

Simon Han on What the Suburbs Can Tell Us About the American Way of Life

WMFA Podcast">In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast

By WMFA | December 2, 2020

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By Suzannah Lessard | March 14, 2019

David Lynch on the Dark Side of Fifties Suburbia

By David Lynch | July 10, 2018

This Thing of Darkness: An Interview With Rachel Ingalls

This Thing of Darkness: An Interview With Rachel Ingalls

Mrs. Caliban author on Hollywood horror, betrayal,
and so-called monsters">The Mrs. Caliban author on Hollywood horror, betrayal,
and so-called monsters

By Dan Sheehan | March 8, 2018

"I've Always Been Political": Celeste Ng and Nicole Chung in Conversation

Little Fires Everywhere">On Transracial Adoption, Social Media, and Little Fires Everywhere

By Nicole Chung | September 12, 2017

The Witches of Suburbia

The Witches of Suburbia

Good Witches Get Domesticated; Wicked Witches Are Made an Example

By Willem De Blécourt | April 14, 2017

Sex, Politics, and Coming of Age in the Clinton Years

Sex, Politics, and Coming of Age in the Clinton Years

Taylor Larsen and Annie DeWitt on Fitting Fiction into the News

By Literary Hub | December 12, 2016

Every House is a Haunted House

Every House is a Haunted House

Why is So Much of Horror About the Home?

By Tyler Malone | October 31, 2016