“I tend to have two sorts of fans,” Tony Hillerman observed in a 1986 interview with Sue Bernell and Michaela Karni: “One kind are the mystery readers, who care more about plot. The other kind I call 'desert rats.'” Since then, howeve...

Tony Hillerman grew up during the Depression in the small, farming community of Sacred Heart, in Potawatomie, Oklahoma. His father's farm came without indoor plumbing, tractor, or electricity. The nearest library was thirty-five miles away and the once-a...

Tony Hillerman "created the American Indian policier," according to critic Herbert Mitgang in the New York Times. Hillerman also "breaks out of the detective genre," as Daniel K. Muhlestein noted in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. "He is a writer o...

A BRITISH soldier died trying to rescue his fallen comrades in one of the fiercest battles with the Taliban so far in southern Afghanistan. Sgt Craig Brelsford, 25, was killed as he led a platoon back into heavy enemy fire in a battle...

EVANESCENCE Fallen Wind-Up Forget angels. How many tears fit on a pinhead? Ninety-six, according to the inquisitive? and the Mysterians, and those who subsequently covered them: Aretha Franklin, Garland Jeffreys, Suicide, the Stranglers, innumerable bar bands. Other cry babes-Justin Timberlake, to...

The shooting started at dusk, a solid half hour of bullets zinging into the U.S. Army outpost, probably from AK-47 rifles firing from abandoned houses nearby.Soldiers returned fire, shaking the heavily fortified mansion where they live to its foundation as they ran through hundreds of...