Five Gifts of Literary Delight for You or Anyone Lucky Enough to Be Your Friends or Family

Sentence yourself to a long stretch of reading pleasure

"...middle of the crime genre spectrum that shimmers between Dashiell Hammett's Maltese Falcon and Edgar Cantero's Meddling Kids, The..."

Nov. 28, 2022 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, December 3-9

"...you get four, and sometimes you get 22." Author Dashiell Hammett said that, and now I'm passing it on..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

The Dry

Murder and secrets in the Australian Outback

"...It’s all built around the same tensions that distinguished Dashiell Hammett’s contributions to detective fiction: that big conspiracies that..."

May 21, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

Intimate, semi-improvised last night at a dive bar sees delight in the dregs

"...everything turned to shit. It’s a masterpiece. To quote Dashiell Hammett’s tippling couple Nick and Nora Charles, “How do..."

July 24, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Now Streaming in Austin: Blood Simple

Tweet along with us to the Lone Star Noir that gave us the Coens

"...This sinister homage to the king of dusty noir, Dashiell Hammett, wasn't just a major movie in Austin's cinematic..."

April 23, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Bird Boys Brings Crime to 1970s Beaumont

Lisa Sandlin's characters try to solve the mysteries of themselves

"...up here just where that book – the 2015 Dashiell Hammett Prize winner The Do-Right – left off, it's..."

July 19, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Review: The Annotated Big Sleep

Everything you need to know about Raymond Chandler's classic

"...executive. Focus came in 1932 when he retyped a Dashiell Hammett story and studied every line, word, and nuance...."

July 27, 2018 Arts Post by Jesse Sublett

Review: The Big Book of the Continental Op

All of the Dashiel Hammett PI's cases in one energetic volume

"...hailed as American masterpieces. I’m talking in particular about Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, the leaders of the pack,..."

July 27, 2018 Arts Post by Jesse Sublett

Heading Down to Rock Steady Row

Director Trevor Stevens on his post-Apocalyptic college comedy

"...here, but also A Fistful of Dollars, Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett's novel that influenced Yojimbo, and Last Man Standing,..."

July 25, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Holiday Viewing: The Thin Man

A merry, blotto Christmas (mind the dead body in the bedroom)

"...And so begins the great Dashiell Hammett’s 1934 detective novel, wasting no time in introducing..."

Dec. 25, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Mystery: What’s on Kleinfeld’s List?

10 classic solutions to which crimes are worth reading about

"...The Glass Key by Dashiell HammettThe most brutal and political of the Founding Father’s..."

Nov. 30, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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

"...9) Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett knocked me out when I re-read it, in..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Arts Feature by Jesse Sublett

Noir City Film Festival Returns

This year's Noir City Film Festival highlights a forgotten master

"...forgotten, outshone by the big bosses – Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and James M. Cain. "To be brutally honest,..."

May 8, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

John Doe on SXSW Hit-and-Run

“Very strange feeling to be that close, but not be aware”

"...from Los Angeles, people like Nathaniel West, Charles Bukowski, Dashiell Hammett – people like that. As far as us..."

April 10, 2015 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Chronicle Recommends: Family Dysfunction Films

Because the holidays aren't all about happiness and good cheer

"...the annals of Hollywood in Nick and Nora Charles. Dashiell Hammett’s novel was turned by director W.S. Van Dyke..."

Dec. 19, 2014 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

The Good Eye: Books Are a Slanket for Your Brain

Read your way through those visits with the in-laws

"...The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett. The Coen brothers lifted a lot of the..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Chronicle Recommends: Bird Movies

Let us give you the bird

"...is ultimately inessential to the narrative. Humphrey Bogart as Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade with various unsavory characters – all..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

July Is Crime Month: Raymond Chandler’s 'The Long Goodbye'

Sleuthing for a childhood relic

"...B. Parker (who completed Chandler’s Poodle Springs), and naturally Dashiell Hammett, though after the latter’s Maltese Falcon I just..."

July 11, 2014 Books Post by Raoul Hernandez

Show and Tell With Rian Johnson

Revisiting the high school noir ‘Brick’ at AFF

"...debut that brilliantly married a high school setting to Dashiell Hammett-style speech and plotting – think femme fatales and..."

Oct. 26, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Dave Eggers' New Novel Sharks Its Way Into Your Social Brain

'The Circle' could teach Stephen King a few tricks about horror

"...Lethem or Mantel or Shakar or (RIP) Sturgeon or Hammett or Ballard or whomever...."

Oct. 14, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Letters at 3AM: In a Lonely Place

Film noir is a cinema of failure

"...university publication authoritatively declared the first example to be Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest, though everything noir –..."

June 3, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Bedside Manner: Ten Commandments

A self-described brat ponders his sleep situation

"...was lead into reading some noir fiction - primarily Dashiell Hammett as recommended by Chronicle proofer Mike Crissey. Hammett..."

May 24, 2011 Books Post by Doug Freeman

Page Two: Reporting for Duty

Anti-government patriots poised to fix government

"...– Sam Spade to Brigid O'Shaughnessy, in Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Bedside Manner: Mogwai's Travel Reading

What Savlov's dog is napping on these days

"...Max Brand's Destry Rides Again, the collected Novels of Dashiell Hammett, Richard Kadrey's second ultra-noir, supercool Sandman Slim novel,..."

Nov. 30, 2010 Books Post by Marc Savlov

2010 Texas Book Festival

Lone Star Noir

"...the money trail to Austin, where he finds a Dashiell Hammett-style mix of power and blood under the Capitol..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Books Feature by Richard Whittaker

All Shades of Black

How do you define film noir?

"...period between John Huston's 1941 adaptation (the third) of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and Orson Welles' Touch of..."

July 9, 2010 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Plays With Expectations

Jake Silverstein mixes fact and fiction, funny and bleak, to dramatize one journalist's coming-of-age

"...book as a character, one who is "like a Dashiell Hammett character, but he inhabits an S.J. Perelman world."..."

April 16, 2010 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Wednesday Showcases

Wednesday SXSW showcases at a glance

"...this hard-rocking national showcase. Borrowing its name from novelist Dashiell Hammett, Malaga's Tom Cary stormed SXSW last year on..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Poisonville

Perhaps some of the pizzazz got lost in the translation?

"...The first line of Dashiell Hammett's 1929 hard-boiled masterpiece Red Harvest refers to a..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Blood's a Rover: A Novel

Ellroy's oh-the-humanity neo-noir crimespeak bubbles up not from the heart nor from the head but from the gut

"...crimespeak bubbles up not from the heart (as did Dashiell Hammett's) nor from the head (à la Ross Macdonald)..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Books Review by Marc Savlov

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