Leopold and Loeb - boy geniuses heirs to Jewish fortunes egghead intellectuals convenient examples of Modernism’s effete, ethnic and degenerate manliness - were also, worst of all, lovers. For that, something far fouler was necessary.įortunately for the rapt American public, the strange relationship between the two accused murderers provided just that. Monstrous, tragic and especially “perverse,” per the language of the time, Franks’ murder was, on its own, still not the stuff of which the “Crime of the Century” could be made. On May 21st of that year, the Chicago teenagers kidnapped 14-year-old Bobby Franks, bludgeoned him with a chisel until he died, undressed him, melted his face and circumcised his penis with hydrochloric acid and then dumped him in a culvert in a swamp. Paul w.When Nathan “Babe” Leopold, 19, and Richard “Dickie” Loeb, 18, were put on trial in 1924, it was ostensibly because they committed a murder that was as heinous as it was unusual. Paul sees Julian as his sole intellectual equal-an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. When he meets the worldly Julian in his freshman ethics class, Paul is immediately drawn to his classmate’s effortless charm. Sensitive, insecure, and incomprehensible to his grieving family, Paul feels isolated and alone. When Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, it’s with the hope of moving past the recent death of his father. The Secret History meets Lie with Me in Micah Nemerever's compulsively readable debut novel-a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence. A Paperback Paris Best New LGBTQ+ Books To Read This Year Selection.An Electric Lit Most Anticipated Debut of the Second Half of 2020.An O LGBTQ Books That Are Changing the Literary Landscape in 2020 Selection.A Philadelphia Inquirer 10 Big Books for the Fall.
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