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Elmore Leonard

March 2023

  • Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray as Walter and Phyllis in the 1944 film of Double Indemnity.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 criminal duos in fiction

    Authors from James M Cain to Patricia Highsmith show how partners in crime can really bring out the worst in each other

September 2022

  • Pam Grier as the title character in Jackie Brown.

    Jackie Brown review – Tarantino’s most romantic film is a stone-cold classic

    Pam Grier and Samuel L Jackson are explosively good in this stylish crime thriller, with superb supporting turns from Robert Forster, Robert De Niro and Bridget Fonda

February 2021

  • ‘You only get one night’ … Rene Russo, John Travolta, Danny DeVito and Gene Hackman in the 1995 Elmore Leonard adaptation.

    How we made
    Danny DeVito and Barry Sonnenfeld: how we made Get Shorty

    ‘Gene Hackman was scary as hell. At the premiere, he pulled me aside and said: “I didn’t think you had a clue what you were doing!”’

August 2020

  • Bleak but important … a still from Channel 4’s adaptation of Boy A.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about probation

    Writers including Jonathan Trigell, Helen Fitzgerald and Elmore Leonard have found rich, human stories in the space between prison and the rest of life

March 2020

  • 1995, GET SHORTY<br>RENE RUSSO &amp; JOHN TRAVOLTA Character(s): Karen Flores &amp; Chili Palmer Film ‘GET SHORTY’ (1995) Directed By BARRY SONNENFELD 20 October 1995 CTK32949 Allstar/MGM **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of MGM and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To MGM is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Get Shorty at 30: Dennis Lehane on Elmore Leonard's Hollywood satire

    The Dickens of Detroit wrote a string of classic thrillers, but this is the greatest of them all: a gimlet-eyed take on the movie business

May 2017

  • Good Time

    Good Time review - Robert Pattinson sticks up for his brother in chaotic heist movie

    Pattinson turns in a strong performance as a career crim in the Safdie brothers’ exciting, if sometimes bewildering take on Elmore Leonard-style crime dramas

December 2015

  • Elmore Leonard

    Brief letters
    Get McKinty – he’s up there with Elmore

    Letters: Adrian McKinty’s intelligent, razor sharp thrillers have taut, lean prose and dialogue up there with Elmore Leonard

November 2015

  • Farley Granger (left) and Robert Walker in the 1951 film version of Strangers on a Train.

    Top 10s
    Top 10: the best dialogue in crime fiction

    Some of the most brilliant speech in novels can be found in this genre. From Agatha Christie to Raymond Chandler and even Martin Amis, here are some of the best practitioners

December 2014

  • The Big Sleep

    Reading group
    Choose December’s Reading group: Noir Christmas

    Sam Jordison: This month we’re after a hard-bitten great to get to grips with. Please help round up some likely suspects

September 2014

  • US Booker winners that might have been

    The American novels that should have won the Booker prize

  • Jennifer Aniston in Life of Crime

    Life of Crime review – a good-natured, unexpectedly winning treat

July 2014

  • Elmore Leonard

    Elmore Leonard's unpublished stories to be published next year

    From small-town New Mexico to a military base in Kuala Lumpur, publisher promises 'razor-sharp dialogue and headlong pacing'

April 2014

  • Justified

    TV and radio blog
    Justified's season five finale sets up its rogues' final duel

    The penultimate season ended last night, leaving viewers with the tantalising possibility of one final Raylan-Boyd showdown when the show comes to an end

January 2014

  • William Burroughs

    Books blog
    Keats's Ode to Waitrose? How brands use writers' reputations

    John Dugdale: A shocked academic this week reported that RS Thomas's face is now on crisp packets, but he's far from the first writer to lend their brand to others'

December 2013

  • Chinua Achebe

    In their own words: literary giants who died this year

  • Elmore Leonard

    Obituaries of 2013
    Elmore Leonard remembered by Peter Leonard

November 2013

  • Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie wins vote to steal crown as crime writers' favourite crime writer

    Crime Writers' Association poll votes Poirot creator best writer, and her Murder of Roger Ackroyd the best ever crime novel

September 2013

  • john sutherland lives

    Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives by John Sutherland – review

    Sutherland's survey of writers in English is partial, personal and highly entertaining, writes Tim Adams
  • Mos Def, Jason Hawkes and Jennifer Aniston in Life of Crime

    First look review
    Life of Crime: Toronto 2013 - first look review

    Jennifer Aniston, Tim Robbins and John Hawkes set the scene and dispatch killer dialogue in this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's The Switch

  • Toronto film festival 2013: Sunshine on Leith and Life of Crime - video review

    Catherine Shoard waves goodbye to Toronto as the city’s 38th annual film festival comes to a close. As a parting shot Catherine reviews Dexter Fletcher’s Proclaimers musical Sunshine on Leith and Life of Crime, the last film adapted from an Elmore Leonard novel before he died
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