How One Writer Is Using Thrillers to Explore Misogyny
March 27, 2018
Vladimir Nabokov once described the thriller as a “fond tradition” in which “the villain is generally punished, and the strong silent man wins the weak babbling girl.” We all know the kind of novel he means. The weary, handsome detective, the woman in distress, the discovery of a body, the labyrinthine quest for the truth, the inexorable triumph of good over evil—these are the sturdy conventions that make the thriller a dependable pleasure...