80 Years Later, An Infamously Confusing Noir Thriller Is Still An All-Time Classic When you have Humphrey Bogart, your story doesn't have to make perfect sense. Inverse · Aug 31
'As My Elected Official, I Want You to Assassinate the President': Pennsylvania Man Charged After Threatening Congress Member Raymond Chandler III, a Pennsylvania Senate hopeful, was arrested for making graphic threats against a Congress member, their daughter, and former President Trump, raising concerns over political violence. International Business Times UK · May 7
'I'd Rather Pull The Trigger': Mickey Rourke Slams 'Humiliating' GoFundMe 'I'd rather stick a gun up my a--': Mickey Rourke furiously denies approving GoFundMe to pay his £47k rent debt. The star slams his manager's 'humiliating' charity as he faces eviction. International Business Times UK · Jan 6
Twenty experts on the book that got them through their 20s – part one Your 20s can be an intense decade. In the words of Taylor Swift, those years are “happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time”. Many of us turn to literature to guide us through the highs and the lows of this formative era. We asked 20 of our academic… The Conversation · Dec 1, 2025
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 review You get an identity crisis, you get an identity crisis, we all get an identity crisis! PC Gamer · Oct 17, 2025
Stephanie LaCava Has a Thing for Cinematic Books We asked the 'Nymph' author to tell us about the titles that she thinks unfold like a movie, or tell her favorite Hollywood tales. Marie Claire · Oct 14, 2025
Unpublished Raymond Chandler short story to appear in literary magazine Nightmare will appear in the Strand magazine and portray an ‘incredibly sentimental’ side of the 20th century writer The Guardian - US · Sep 24, 2025
A piano, a pregnant woman and a prison: Raymond Chandler's 'Nightmare' is revealed Raymond Chandler's “Nightmare,” a rarely seen sketch, has been published this week in The Strand Magazine The Independent UK · Sep 24, 2025
Never Flinch book review: Stephen King tries plotting and comes out plodding Stephen King doesn’t do plotting. “Plot is,” he decreed in his memoir On Writing, “the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.” Instead, he likes to drop his characters into a situation, start writing and see where things go. If he gets stuck, he follows the advice of… Evening Standard · May 25, 2025
Lee Montague obituary Actor who toured with Laurence Olivier and Peter Brook, starred on Broadway and had a long career in film and TV The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2025
Eileen Diss obituary Designer of meticulous, poetically imagined sets who collaborated many times with Harold Pinter and won six Baftas The Guardian - UK · Nov 24, 2024
Coffee trends to watch: What’s brewing in 2024? The scent of rain and the aroma of freshly brewed coffee are among the most authentic fragrances that often evoke memories of comfort and joy. Approximately 12-13% of the global population consumes coffee, a beverage deeply ingrained in the cultural milieu of many nations, including China, Korea, and Japan, where… The Times of India · Oct 1, 2024
Streaming: the best private-eye movies Jo Nesbø adaptation Killer Heat is the latest in a long line of detective films, from Chinatown and The Long Goodbye to the Knives Out series The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2024
Shadows of Doubt review: "The true potential of this detective sim is limitless - but it just hasn't reached that point yet" Shadows of Doubt review: "The true potential of this detective sim is limitless - but it just hasn't reached that point yet" GamesRadar · Sep 23, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Jun 28, 2024 Daniel Handler AKA Lemony Snicket: ‘I return to Toni Morrison’s Beloved every five years’ The Unfortunate Events author on getting nightmares from Dr Seuss, Raymond Chandler’s brawny wit and the ghost story he read to tatters
The Guardian - AU · Jun 20, 2024 On winter solstice the oranges on my tree reach their peak – but I always leave one fruit hanging, past its prime My back yard companion brings me visual cheer and sweet nourishment, brightening my spirit through another dark season of the soul
The Walrus · Jun 20, 2024 I Tried to Finish a Dead Man’s Novel It is both a gift and a curse to be handed a briefcase containing a life’s work
The Guardian - UK · May 3, 2024 Abir Mukherjee: ‘Frederick Forsyth and Jeffrey Archer were my gateway drugs into reading for pleasure’ The crime writer on embracing atheism after reading Christopher Hitchens, the allure of Jhumpa Lahiri, and falling under George Orwell’s spell
WEKU · Dec 11, 2023 An unpublished poem by 'The Big Sleep' author Raymond Chandler is going to print Strand Magazine announced that its latest issue will include a poem by the author written around 1955 that shows his "softer, sensitive side."
The Guardian - US · Dec 11, 2023 ‘A moment after death when the face is beautiful’: rare Raymond Chandler poem discovered by US editor The Strand magazine ran Requiem, dated to 1955, after editor found it in Bodleian library at University of Oxford
The Independent UK · Dec 11, 2023 Rare Raymond Chandler poem is a tribute to his late wife, with a surprising twist A rare and newly published Raymond Chandler poem is an ode to his late wife, Cissy, that holds a surprising plot twist
The Independent UK · Dec 10, 2023 Vigil series two review: Without the submarine, this Suranne Jones thriller has lost its way The action relocates to the Scottish Highlands and a fictional Middle Eastern state in this cliffhanger-heavy second series
The Independent UK · Sep 7, 2023 20 best film noirs: From The Big Heat to Sunset Boulevard Rain-streaked streets, femmes fatales, hard-boiled gumshoes and antiheroes fated to die... Graeme Ross presents his pick of the 20 greatest film noirs of the classic era
The Guardian - UK · Sep 3, 2023 Gayle Hunnicutt obituary Texas-born actor who made her home in the UK and was known for her roles in TV’s Fall of Eagles, The Golden Bowl and Dallas
The Guardian - UK · Sep 1, 2023 Lynda La Plante: ‘Raymond Chandler’s books make me laugh out loud’ The novelist and screenwriter on learning to read with dyslexia, being inspired by the great playwrights, and why she could never read Little Women again