Zack Budryk

Speaking to The Post about her new cozy mystery, “The Dead Come to Stay,” Brandy Schillace explains how her Jo Jones novels helped her come out as autistic.

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This month saw the release of Darren Aronofsky's adaptation of Charlie Huston's crime thriller “Caught Stealing,” starring Austin Butler as a sidelined baseball phenom who gets caught in the middle of a crime caper while catsitting. Hank Thompson, Butler's protagonist, comes from a long, illustrious heritage of crime fiction protagonists who love their pets, or in Hank's case their neighbors'. It's not hard to see why the motif endures: people love pets, and they can be a way of humanizing the often rough, morally ambiguous figures we're expected to root for in the genre. Even more practically, they can free a writer from the awkwardness of having the protagonist talk to themselves. In honor of the film's release, here are six of Hank's contemporaries.

The U.S. Supreme Court has, in a number of cases in recent history, nakedly deferred to President Trump and waded in some of the same slop as a

The show doesn't shy away from its depiction of Fisk's authoritarian tactics.

Attorneys for Printing Textiles LLC argued in a federal appeals court Thursday that the Commerce Department’s use of the term “receptivity” in an antidumping order was wrongly applied.

The United States’ abandonment of the renewal process for the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement was broadly expected, but the path forward injects uncertainty that may linger past US midterm elections in November — or into the next presidential administration.