Opinion: Challenges For Pentagon's New Number Two

The Black-Eyed Blonde Benjamin Black Mantle, 320pp, £16.99 I do not know what the loftiest level of literary achievement is, wrote Raymond Chandler. Me neither, but I have a feeling it's probably not writing sequels to the novels of Raymond ...

In 1986 Irish critic Seamus Deane wrote that with the appearance of John Banville's first few novels, It was obvious that an important new writer had arrived, although in what his importance consisted was not clear. Today, after 24 novels, six plays ...

Is it too much to compare Kem Nunn to Raymond Chandler? Both have used the loose frame of genre to write enduringly and resonantly about the dark side of the California dream. For Nunn, this has meant an exploration of boundaries, both actual and ...

Deconstructed film noir receives top-tier treatment with this Blu-ray release Raymond Chandler's most famous literary creation private investigator Philip Marlowe is reborn as a moral man adrift in a self-obsessed world he doesn't fit into ...

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Sgt. Maj. of the Army Raymond F. Chandler III met with Air Defense Artillery Soldiers throughout Southwest Asia during a tour of the region, Saturday through today. The SMA expressed gratitude for the dedicated service of the Air ...

Imagine that, once upon a dance-time, Fred and Ginger asked Raymond Chandler to come up with a movie scenario. Asked Groucho Marx for some deadpan asides and comedy capers. Had a troupe of hot-to-trot hoofers and cute chorines all waiting for the ...

Sergeant Major of the Army Raymond Chandler says he has about one year left to his service, and while he may be thinking about retirement, it's not at the forefront of his brain. Your SMA, the Army's 14th, has a number of significant changes still ...

Originally one of the articles in the first DBA Team series, Grant wonders what Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett would have done if asked to write technical articles for Simple-Talk. He came up with the DBA detective, hard-boiled Joe

THAT HURTS: J.R. Smith (left), Tyson Chandler and Raymond Felton watch their Knicks get steamrolled by the Suns, 112-88, on Friday night in Phoenix, and now turn their eyes to the Hawks, who sit