From rural settings to complex characters, this neo-Western set the stage as one of TV's most confident dramas, and its ...

Elmore Leonard, sometimes called the Dickens of Detroit, created some of the most memorable characters in modern crime fiction. The 87-year-old writer died after suffering a stroke several weeks ago.

Two recent books, different in temperament and circumstance, invite reflection on what draws our attention, and how that ...

Twelve years after his death in 2013, Michigan’s own Elmore Leonard has a current book for sale. Dubbed the lost novella, Picket Line conjures up the literature of labor strife reminiscent of John ...

He’s been referred to by the rather unwieldy sobriquet of “The Master of Contemporary American Crime Fiction.” And many critics and readers have agreed that he’s a worthy heir to the hardboiled ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “The Cure for Women,” by Lydia Reeder (St. Martin’s Press) "The Cure for Women," by Lydia Reeder (St. Martin’s Press) In 1871, Horatio Storer, a prominent ...

Elmore Leonard's 46th and final novel, Blue Dreams, remains unfinished in the wake of its author's death last week. Yet for better or worse, Peter Leonard, one of Leonard's sons, has plans to finish ...

One hundred years after his birth, Elmore Leonard still sounds like America talking to itself — dry, funny, and perfectly in time. His prose swings with the precision of Shelly Manne’s drums, keeping ...