Is ‘Said’ Dead? If the novelist Elmore Leonard were still alive, there's no doubt he'd object to a weird literary trend described in today's Wall Street Journal. By Matthew Kassel
Here’s Looking at Them: A Tearful Toast to Those We Lost in the Year That Just Ended From catastrophic weather and violent school tragedies to increasing numbers of same-sex marriages and elected minorities, 2013 was a year By Rex Reed
Motor City Is Burning: Elmore Leonard’s Detroit Of Elmore Leonard’s 45 published novels, about a third are set in Detroit, the city he lived in for most By M.H. Miller