Nick Kolakowski

Throughout the end of 2022 and beginning of 2023, the tech industry endured massive layoffs. Some of the biggest names in tech cut tens of thousands of workers; startups shut down, forcing their employees to look for new jobs. Twelve months later, however, tech layoffs seem to have declined to a far more manageable level.

Unity Software, which maintains a game-development platform used by game builders worldwide, plans on laying off 25 percent of its staff. The cuts will reportedly impact all teams.

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Over the past year or so, we’ve seen numerous headlines about layoffs within the video-game industry. Some of the biggest names in gaming—including Electronic Arts, Epic, Bungie, and Amazon Games—have significantly reduced their respective headcounts. Are these layoffs frightening tech professionals who build video games for a living?

For more than three decades, Don Winslow has written bestselling novels about everything from the War on Drugs (with his sweeping Border trilogy) to police corruption (“The Force”) to mafia hitmen (“The Winter of Frankie Machine”). Yet even as he produced these books at an astounding rate, his muse kept directing him back to a sweeping epic set among the gangs of New England in the 1980s and 90s.

Supernatural and detective fiction have long been linked: let's not forget that Bram Stoker's “Dracula” (published in 1897) has Dr. Abraham Van Helsing and his crew of fearless vampire hunters sleuthing through London to find the titular bloodsucker. That merger has extended from literature to film and television, as well—just ask the generations of viewers glued to “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” and, later, “The X-Files.”

When publishers feel the urge to put out a retrospective of an author's short stories, they often cherry-pick a handful of representative works—the literary world's equivalent of a greatest-hits album. Then you have Soho Crime, which decided the lauded crime writer James Sallis deserved as maximalist a collection as possible: