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In the world of the long-running kids show Cyberchase, Motherboard, a sort of digital queen and literal technocrat, is the beneficent but impaired leader of all of cyberspace. She is—we are to ...

The teen detectives and alien enigmas of the Nova Scotia-set “Hobtown Mystery Stories” return for a third supernatural outing. By Sam Thielman Sam Thielman is a reporter and critic based in Brooklyn.

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“Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” has officially landed on Netflix, and just like the rest of the film series, it boasts a star-studded cast. Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is back, and ...

When I was in my early teens, I was both a devout churchgoer and an avid reader of mysteries. One of my favorite writers was P.D. James, whose Anglican faith informed her fiction in subtle ways. For ...

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