I'm currently reading Donna Tartt's The Secret History, a gothic campus thriller in which a group of classics students are led by their studies first into Dionysian revelry and then into murder. There are plots and counterplots and paranoia and madness all enabled by the inherently crazed structure of college life itself--which is of course what gives Tartt's novel its special chilling charm, what makes it seem just possible that something as twisted as her plot could really happen. And so it has--witness the newly uncovered tale of the anti-gay witch hunt Harvard administrators secretly conducted during the 1920s. Replete with suicides, ruined careers, cryptic codes, and administrative cover-ups, it's truth as strange as very strange fiction.