A very enjoyable interview about 'Five Evil Women' with the wonderful Miranda Melcher on New Books Network. You can listen to it here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/five-evil-women . Why do certain women become icons of evil? My new book, Five Evil Women: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker (Reaktion, 2026) is the first comparative, non-sensationalist account of five of the most reviled women in the modern Anglophone world: Myra Hindley, Rosemary West, Aileen Wuornos, Karl

The three sites of cruelty I will explore are (firstly) hierarchies of sentience, (secondly) wartime wounding, and (thirdly) sexual...