"Lush Life," Price's latest tour of down-low urban America, is an acute portrait of the Darwinian adaptations required to survive in our city jungles.
By Richard B. Woodward Mar 10, 2008
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Thrills and chills: These mysteries and science fiction novels will transport you to a higher plane.
By Salon staff
June 25, 2007
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The master of contemporary crime fiction goes back to Detroit -- and back to writing love stories -- for his finest novel since "Out of Sight."
February 5, 2004
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Masculine charms rule our midwinter reading list, from Elmore Leonard's love story to Walter Mosley's enigmatic fable, Colin Harrison's Manhattan noir and more.
By Salon's critics
February 5, 2004
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Robert Parker, Dennis Lehane, Lawrence Block, Michael Connelly -- I've read them all. Amid the logrolling and endless hype, one thing gets obscured: Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald did it first, and did it a lot better.
By Ben Yagoda
January 6, 2004
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Election and recession getting you down? Check out the mystery novels that got me through a very tough year.
By Charles Taylor
January 3, 2001
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A
fast-paced crime novel about a supposed priest who flees war-torn Rwanda to
find himself pursued by a cigarette smuggler.
By
October 5, 2000
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"Rum Punch"
By Elmore Leonard
October 5, 2000
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"Cuba Libre"
By Elmore Leonard
October 5, 2000
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In his latest black-comic thriller, the peerless crime novelist takes his wisecracking swindlers from post-massacre Rwanda to downtown Detroit.
By Charles Taylor
September 7, 2000
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Ben Affleck provides a charismatic star turn, but John Frankenheimer's out-of-season heist thriller is dead on arrival.
By Charles Taylor
February 25, 2000
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There are some questions even the author of "Sick Puppy" can't be asked.
By David Bowman
January 31, 2000
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The world's coolest crime writer has an uncanny ear for wry dialogue and a deep belief in lives with second acts.
By Sean Elder
September 28, 1999
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Publishing jobs turn the pleasure of reading into a chore. Here's what editors read in their fantasies.
By Ray Sawhill
July 16, 1999
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Why Japan doesn't get the Internet (yet); Neil LaBute's violence is shocking, but not surprising.
Letters to the Editor
July 6, 1999
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Gary Krist reviews 'Be Cool' by Elmore
Leonard
By Gary Krist
January 21, 1999
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Charles Taylor
reviews 'Out of Sight,' Steven Soderbergh's follow-up to 'Get Shorty'.
By Charles Taylor
June 26, 1998
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Edward Neuert reviews 'Cuba Libre' by Elmore Leonard.
By Edward Neuert
February 12, 1998
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Charles Taylor reviews 'Jackie Brown' directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Forster.
By Charles Taylor
December 24, 1997
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Charles Taylor reviews the novel "Out of Sight" by Elmore Leonard.
By Charles Taylor
September 6, 1996
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