This Job Will Change Your Life
Former staff reflect on the zigs and zags of life post-Chronicle
Jesse Sublett
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Features, Sept. 2, 2021
Jan Reid: A Remembrance
Jesse Sublett pays tribute to his late friend as a true writer
Arts, Sept. 22, 2020
Top Books of 2018 That Make the Past Present
Whether in biography, graphic novel, crime fiction, or retold Greek myths, these books brought history to life
Arts, Dec. 27, 2018
Legerdemain Man Ray Anderson
The fact that magicians around the world revere the magic man of Esther's Follies is no illusion
Arts, Nov. 29, 2018
Review: Berlin
At last complete, Jason Lutes' graphic novel is a masterpiece
Arts, Oct. 26, 2018
November Road
Lou Berney's latest, set around JFK's assassination, is a tightly written crime tale worthy of Raymond Chandler or James M. Cain
Arts, Oct. 25, 2018
Review: The Annotated Big Sleep
Everything you need to know about Raymond Chandler's classic
Arts, July 27, 2018
Review: The Big Book of the Continental Op
All of the Dashiel Hammett PI's cases in one energetic volume
Arts, July 27, 2018
Crime Month: Down Those Mean Streams
Nordic noir and other criminal pleasures worth streaming
Arts, July 20, 2018
Jesse Sublett
When the Queen calls, you come
Music, June 29, 2017
Top Books to Cover the Good, the Bad, and the Doomed
A list of memorable lit that includes a philosophical gumshoe, an irredeemable tycoon, and ill-fated whalers
Arts, Dec. 29, 2016
Jesse Sublett's Top Reads of 2015
The Theater of War leads a list that reminds us how ancient lessons about war continue to ring true today
Arts, Dec. 31, 2015
The Reluctant Matador
FBI agent Hugo Marston heads to Barcelona on the trail of a murderer and a Spanish prison gang
Arts, June 11, 2015
Missing
When his stepdaughter is kidnapped in Mexico, Jack Searle has to cross the border to find her
Arts, June 11, 2015
Barefoot Dogs
A Mexico City family scatters to the wind when its patriarch goes missing
Arts, April 30, 2015
Into the Field: A Foreign Correspondent's Notebook
A UT professor recounts his three decades of reporting in Asia
Arts, April 30, 2015
Crimes That Paid
In Jesse Sublett's top reads of 2014, wherever the protagonists go, trouble follows
Arts, Dec. 31, 2014
Boyhood: Twelve Years on Film
This photographic record of Richard Linklater's landmark film shows a lot going on before and behind the camera
Arts, Dec. 16, 2014
Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker
This biography of the gambling, murdering Binion captures his wild character without trying to make him likable
Arts, July 3, 2014
Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey From Prison to Peace
Michael Morton's firsthand account of his unjust conviction and hard-won exoneration is both insightful and infuriating
Arts, July 3, 2014
Bellringer: A St-Cyr and Kohler Mystery
History Detectives: 'Bellringer'
Books, June 14, 2012
Ex-Punk Author, DIY or Die Forever
Test-driving the newest iBooks Author app (bumps ahead)
Screens, March 1, 2012
An Angel-Free Angeles
Detective novelist Michael Connelly trolls L.A.'s seedy underbelly again in 'The Brass Verdict'
Books, Oct. 3, 2008
Dirty Money
Richard Stark's professional thief is back in action
Books, May 9, 2008
Jesse Sublett's Best Books of 2006
Books, Jan. 5, 2007
Solving ConMisterio
A preview
Books, July 7, 2006
Lone Star Navy: Texas, the Fight for the Gulf of Mexico, and the Shaping of the American West
Books, June 9, 2006
The Unexpectedly Bad Hair of Barcelona Smith
Books, June 9, 2006
Cinnamon Kiss
Walter Mosley fans will want to pick up his latest Easy Rawlins mystery, 'Cinnamon Kiss,' right away
Books, Sept. 16, 2005
The Closers
Michael Connelly's ace homicide detective Harry Bosch is back with LAPD after three years' retirement
