I wrote about Karen Dionne’s The Marsh King’s Daughter and Meg Gardiner’s Unsub for Literary Hub (now on Crime Reads).
Writing by Lisa Levy
From Essays & Criticism
Jim Jones: Charismatic Micromanager, Gifted Preacher, Lunatic
I compared cult leaders Jim Jones and Charles Manson using Jeff Guinn’s outstanding biographies of both men (originally on Literary Hub, now on Crime Reads).
Crime and Murder Among the Mormons
On the Mormon noir of Mette Ivie Harrison, at Literary Hub
We’re Living in the Joan Rivers Age of Comedy
I wrote about the life and impact of Joan Rivers for The New Republic.
So Who Exactly Is Bob Dylan, Newly Crowned Nobel Laureate?
For Literary Hub, I pontificated about whether Dylan is a poet or not.
