Unspeakable Acts: True Tales Of Crime, Murder, Deceit, And Obsession

"Born of the post-Serial boom of investigative and reflective true crime, Unspeakable Acts brings together 13 articles and essays that scratch our itch for grisly puzzles while interrogating our obsession with them. Sarah Weinman’s picks include propulsive narrative features like Pamela Colloff’s “The Reckoning,” following one victim for 50 years after the University of Texas tower shooting, and essays like Sarah Marshall’s “The End of Evil,” which reconsiders our tendency to view Ted Bundy as a monstrous genius. These sharp pieces challenge true-crime tropes, looking critically at the stories we want to tell ourselves about criminals and victims."