Graham Greene

Friday's TV Highlights: 'Grimm' on NBC

2013-03-28 20:00:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 24 - 30, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SERIES Fashion Star The designers must create...

'Treasure Island' author Robert Louis Stevenson returns

2013-03-14 10:24:00

A brief, long-lost essay by "Treasure Island" author Robert Louis Stevenson will be published on Friday, the Associated Press reports. The essay will appear in the Strand magazine, a mystery fiction quarterly out of Birmingham, Mich. The Strand has...

Mohsin Hamid comes home to roost in Pakistan

2013-03-14 06:00:00

Many of the characters in Mohsin Hamid's novels are cultural nomads, hopscotching between the Islamic world and the Western capitalist world, the spiritual and the material, Urdu and English, the undernourished countryside and the teeming mega-city. It'...

‘Following,’ ‘Bates Motel,’ ‘Defiance’: Next in promising genre TV

2013-01-22 10:42:44

In 'Restless,' William Boyd spies overlooked World War II chapter

2012-12-01 12:00:00

British novelist and screenwriter William Boyd doesn't buy the conventional wisdom that a writer should never adapt his own books. His long list of industry credits includes scripts based on his own work (the miniseries "Any Human Heart"), novels by the...

Reader recommendations a growing business in the book world

2012-09-23 00:00:00

This summer Molly Ringwald said that she read "Fifty Shades of Grey" because "when a book becomes that big, I feel like it's culturally relevant." No book in recent memory has sold as fast as the lead title of E.L. James' erotic trilogy. It enjoyed an...

Hanoi emerging as a destination for foodies

2012-03-11 00:00:00

In Hanoi, soup is a way of life — the connective tissue of Vietnamese culture. With noodles, herbs and sinew, it strings together twisting streets and varied lifestyles. Here the bones, crumpled napkins and squeezed limes that litter the ground...

Getting the timing right for Capri, Italy

2012-02-19 00:00:00

"Don't go there," a well-traveled friend said when I mentioned my plans to visit Capri, a sunny island off southern Italy. Why? "You're not going to want to come home," he said. I laughed. My friend, a know-it-all author, loves to give advice. I didn't...

Ten Most Wanted

2012-04-01 16:39:36

Gary Oldman goes minimalist with ‘Tinker Tailor’ role

2011-12-08 21:37:28

This Sunday: Pico Iyer's Greene agenda and more

2012-01-20 16:35:03

Barbara Tuchman's opening lines

2012-03-07 16:36:04

A guest soaking at an Oriental Bangkok pool has taken a dip in history, so to speak. The Oriental was established in 1876 and, in ensuing years, earned a reputation as one of the world's best, favored by such writers as Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene and No�l Coward.

2013-05-02 17:26:00

Ray Milland and Marjorie Reynolds in Fritz Lang's 1944 adaptation of Graham Greene's thriller "Ministry of Fear," now out on DVD.

2013-03-02 00:00:00

Actor Graham Greene appeared at the 2012 South Dakota Film Festival at Aberdeen's Capitol Theatre.

2013-02-02 23:51:00