Elmore Leonard

Shopping centers have always been about more than shopping. Before the rise of Internet-based social interaction, malls were a workplace, gathering place and pop culture petri dish for the better part of two generations. That made them the perfect...

The master of snap, crackle and pop crime fiction on hard-boiled masters, the jargon of Justified—and Raylan Givens’ iconic Stetson...

In a special tribute to the nuances of noir, the best of the genre weighs in on books, bad guys and weapons of choice...

The Angry Buddhist A Novel Seth Greenland Europa Editions: 400 pp., $16 paper Seth Greenland's "The Angry Buddhist" begins with two sexy American women getting matching tattoos in Puerto Vallarta — and then it swiftly jumps forward into the...

The carpetbaggers won't be running Raylan Givens out of Harlan County any time soon. FX has ordered a 13-episode fourth season of "Justified." The network made the announcement Tuesday prior to the premiere of the eighth episode of Season 3, called...

Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens doesn't shy away from killing people in FX's "Justified," but does it ever bother him? "The answer is I have no idea," Timothy Olyphant, who plays Raylan, told me during a conference call Friday. "I just know that he...

Happy Valentine’s Day. We hope your day — heck, your month and your life — is filled with the sweets of romance. To commemorate this month, the library has a Valentine display in the lobby. It features some humorous reading related...

Plan your week with our guide to everything going on through 1/22. MOVIES OPENING (Friday) A Dangerous Method Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Haywire Red Tails Underworld Awakening NOTABLE TV MONDAY Alcatraz (series premiere; 8 p.m.; Fox) Gossip...

"Justified" creator Graham Yost was in a terrible pickle when it came time to work on Season 3 of his critically acclaimed series: What do you do when you've killed off one the greatest baddies ever? You find not one, but two major villains to trouble...

"Death of Kings" by Bernard Cornwell, Harper, 315 pages, $27.99. This novel begins where "The Burning Land" ended. It is the 9th century and Alfred the Great is dying. His son Edward is to succeed him, but there are other claimants. The kingdom is on the...