The "murder leisure industry," its media, and its public: these are the subjects of this penetrating look at modern violence and the modern media and the ties that bind them in contemporary life.
True crime is crime fact that looks like crime fiction. It is one of the most popular genres of our pathological public sphere, and an integral part of our contemporary wound culture-a culture, or at least cult, of commiseration. If we cannot gather in the face of anything...