Critical Essay by Eliot Fremont-smith
One trouble with Joe McGinniss's true-crime anatomy, Fatal Vision …, is that it's 663 pages long. If the prose is a little wooden and the in...
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Critical Essay by Joan Barthel
"If we can prove that he did it," the Federal prosecutor told the jury at Dr. MacDonald's murder trial, "then we don't need to prove ...
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Critical Essay by Josephine Hendin
Even murder should have dignity. How can we justify the passage of brutality from the police blotter or tabloid to the permanence of a book, except as a necessary s...
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Critical Essay by Ann Jones
Joe McGinniss, who had set out to chronicle a case of unjust prosecution [in Fatal Vision], changed his mind.
But he didn't tell MacDonald. How in the world coul...
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Critical Essay by Eliot Fremont-smith
