Olivia Rutigliano

Amazon pulls sponsorship from Paris book festival after booksellers’ association boycott Syndicat de la Librairie Française accused online retailer of trying to ‘flood the market with fake AI-generated books’

Yes, the French booksellers association forced the Paris Book Festival to drop Amazon sponsorship due to Amazon "seeking to flood the market with fake AI-generated books, promoted by fake reviews, written by fake readers [which rise] to the top of fake rankings"💥 MORE OF THIS, PLEASE 💥

The Terminator Is About the Last Moments In a Woman’s Life Before She Becomes a Mother A few weeks ago, I found myself with a burning desire to watch The Terminator. I love The Terminator for many reasons; it’s a perfect movie. It has easily adaptable lore but is itself very self-con…

Great essay by @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social 🙏 I 💜The Terminator & Linda Hamilton.
"The film presents us w/a heroine who models the bravery & the strength of pregnancy & motherhood & how they stand in opposition to the rising tide of anti-women, anti-human sentiment."👇
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What Character Are You in a Traditional English Murder Mystery? Traditional mysteries are booming! This makes me happy, because “traditional mystery” is my favorite genre. I thought it might be fun for us all to imagine who we’d be if we were …

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The Terminator Is About the Last Moments In a Woman’s Life Before She Becomes a Mother A few weeks ago, I found myself with a burning desire to watch The Terminator. I love The Terminator for many reasons; it’s a perfect movie. It has easily adaptable lore but is itself very self-con…

@oliviarutigliano.bsky.social on T1:

"The Terminator does not care that Sarah will die; in fact, it’s the point—and as such, embodies the aggressive history of government and patriarchal regulation of women’s health options without their participation or consent..."

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See this is why you go to @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social for all your mystery-crime needs 😍

The great @sayanniething.bsky.social in LARB!!! Unmissable!!!!

A graphic with the covers of Wreck and The Ten Year Affair

"These are not extraordinary people, these are not unique circumstances. We could be them—which is what makes these otherwise quiet, funny novels feel so dangerous."

Annie Berke considers timelines not taken in “The Ten Year Affair” and “Wreck” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/theres-no-telling/

Against All Odds, Here Are 10 More Crime Movies You Probably Forgot Take Place at Christmas You might remember a CrimeReads tradition: In December 2018, our editor Dwyer Murphy assembled ten thrillers that might surprise you with their holiday settings, and in December of 2019, I added te…

In our SEVENTH list in this series, @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social finds 10 more crime movies that take place at Christmas! crimereads.com/against-all-...

THANK YOU JANE!!!!!!!

This is a @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social appreciation post, because Batman Returns is the most fun Batman & I cannot wait to track down 8 Women.

Wake Up Dead Man Knows the Whodunnit is Inherently Political. (It’s also a Perfect Movie.) Featured image: Netflix To be honest, I’ve been afraid of writing this review. I was so deeply moved by Wake Up Dead Man, the new film from Rian Johnson (and the third in his Benoit Blanc tri…

"The whodunnit IS by its very nature political. Why? Because it is concerned with the Truth, above all else... and Truth is a wildly politicized and often obfuscated thing.”— @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social on @rianjohnson.bsky.social’s superb new film, WAKE UP DEAD MAN
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“Whoever Wrote this Episode Should Die”: “Galaxy Quest” Is Personal, and it’s Personal to Me I once read a book review in which the reviewer, the professor and critic Benjamin de Mott, expressed anxiety about effectively conveying the impressiveness of the work at hand: “I find myself nerv…

Agreed, @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social. Perfect Movie.
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“Whoever Wrote this Episode Should Die”: Galaxy Quest Is Personal, and it’s Personal to Me I once read a book review in which the reviewer, the professor and critic Benjamin de Mott, expressed anxiety about effectively conveying the impressiveness of the work at hand: “I find myself nerv…

“Whoever wrote this episode should die!” Good actors playing bad actors becoming better people through acting and life. @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social has written the Galaxy Quest paean I’ve longed for: crimereads.com/galaxy-quest/

Tom Stoppard’s Secret Indiana Jones Rewrites This past weekend, we lost the great playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard. I can wax long and hard about how Stoppard was one of the greatest creative scholars of literary history, how he was b…

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Guillermo del Toro’s New Frankenstein Adaptation is Life-Giving One of the most recognizable words in our modern culture is “Frankenstein.” But in Guillermo del Toro’s magnificent new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, another name…

I loved Guillermo del Toro’s new FRANKENSTEIN adaptation. lithub.com/guillermo-de...

Guillermo del Toro’s New Frankenstein Adaptation is Life-Giving One of the most recognizable words in our modern culture is “Frankenstein.” But in Guillermo del Toro’s magnificent new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, another name…

“Del Toro loves monsters—misunderstood, sympathetic monsters—and Shelley’s Creature is the primogenitor of this tradition.” @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social praises Guillermo Del Toro’s new adaptation of Frankenstein.

NEWS!!!!! My new @literaryhub.bsky.social podcast, CULTURE SCHLOCK, is launching next Friday, October 3rd, 2025 at Lit Hub Radio! Listen to an excerpt on the Lit Hub Pod HERE:
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I need to re-watch The Natural, since it's been a while.
As many time as I have, though, I confess my failure to see the parallels with Homer's Odyssey and so many other classics.

#RIPRobertRedford

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Thank you Tom!!!!

The 20 In-Flight Crime Movie Options on This Airplane, Ranked I’m on an airplane right now, about to go on vacation. Well, actually, I assume by the time this article is published, I’ll either be on or have returned from vacation. But at the time of the compo…

For @crimereads.bsky.social, I ranked the in-flight (crime) entertainment on my nine-hour international flight to Greece.
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Eight Terrible Head Injuries in Crime Film Two weeks ago, I sustained two back-to-back concussions to the frontal lobe of my brain. I took off from work to convalesce, but I don’t have much to say about that. This is is because I was …

Our editor Olivia Rutigliano (@oliviarutigliano.bsky.social), recovering from a bad concussion, rounds up some of cinema's greatest blows to the head. crimereads.com/eight-terrib...

The 100 Best, Worst, and Strangest Sherlock Holmes Portrayals of All-Time, Ranked We’re ranking Sherlock Holmes performances. One hundred of them. Not Sherlock Holmes adaptations, but the representations within them of Sherlock Holmes himself. Now, you might think that you…

According to Guinness World Records, Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed on screen more than any other literary character. @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social ranks the 100 best, worst, & strangest screen portrayals of the great detective for @crimereads.bsky.social
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New Crime Series to Stream During This Holiday Weekend We did it! We made it to the long weekend! And not just any long weekend, but Memorial Day weekend, AKA the unofficial start of SUMMERTIME! Now, you can spend this on the beach or at the park&#8230…

Looking for some good new TV to watch, this holiday weekend? Our editor @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social has you covered. crimereads.com/new-crime-se...

Here’s who should play James Bond Next May I have your attention, please. I have a proposition for you. It has been four years since we had an installment of the James Bond franchise. And not only that, good people. Since the contradict…

Olivia Rutigliano (@oliviarutigliano.bsky.social) makes a bold assertion about who should play James Bond next. crimereads.com/heres-who-sh...

On Charles Dickens's Magician-Detectives YouTube video by The Sherlock Channel

The Red Circle of Washington DC recently had the honor of hearing from @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social of @crimereads.bsky.social fame. Olivia spoke about Dickens, magic, detection, and his love of performing. You can watch the recording now - enjoy !!!

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Drop is a Rom-Com Psychological Thriller for Our Surveillance Age I always think about a particular scene from Her, Spike Jonze’s somewhat-prescient tech romance from 2013. Our protagonist Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) has fallen in love with his new S…

“The nominal villain of the film is the person behind these drops, but the film allows surveillance to be the real villain.” @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social reviews Drop.

Best Bank Robbery Masks in Crime Movies Robbing a bank is bad. It’s bad. Don’t do it. But I won’t deny that the movies make it look kind of cool. Well, not the robbery part, but the part where the robbers storm into the…

Olivia Rutigliano (@oliviarutigliano.bsky.social) rounds up the best bank robbery disguises in movies: crimereads.com/best-bank-ro...

Which Kind of Martini is Each James Bond? Here at CrimeReads, we ask the important questions. It’s how we’re trained. This weekend, I rewatched The Living Daylights and was struck (yet again) by the singularity of Timothy Dalto…

@oliviarutigliano.bsky.social and John Buffalo Mailer make a menu fit for a spy: crimereads.com/which-kind-o...

Chekhov’s Nail Gun: Lethal Weapon 2 and the Calibration of Expectations Lethal Weapon is fine! It’s good! But it could be so much more. There’s a lot going on in the movie and some of it’s too much and some of it’s not enough. But its nucleus is…

“’Lethal Weapon 2’ is both a doubling-down on a few chosen dynamics from the first film that worked well, and a knowing expansion of those dynamics into something new, without trying too hard or going too far.” crimereads.com/chekhovs-nai...

A Whodunnit, according to The Far Side Gary Larson’s The Far Side comic strip (if you can call it a strip… it was always single-panel) ran in syndication throughout American newspapers from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1…

Gary Larson's legendary cartoon contains a perfect conceit for a mystery. crimereads.com/a-whodunnit-...