Many critics consider Elmore Leonard to be the best living writer of crime fiction in the United States. Since the mid 1980s he has enjoyed enormous commercial success, and his style has influenced a generation of writers. Leonard began his career writin...

Dubbed "The Dickens of Detroit" by Time magazine in 1984, Elmore Leonard has written more than thirty novels, as well as many short stories and screenplays. He began his writing career in the early 1950s, turning out short stories for western pulp magazi...

Elmore Leonard has been called the greatest living writer of crime fiction. His novels have been compared to the works of the acknowledged masters of the genre, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Critics praise Leonard's uncanny ear for dialogue, and...

Hombre means ‘man’ in Spanish. Depending on social class, generation and local cultures, the concept has nuanced meanings in an increasingly urban and globalised Mexican society. For men who migrate to the United States, migration and...

Hombre, the Spanish word for "man" and sometimes used informally in English, may refer...

From: sadielicious@yahoo.com Subject: unappreciated beauty Date: July 15, 2005 1:40:15 PM EDT To: letters@americanvixenmag.com Dear American Vixen, Thank you for your enlightening article, “Loving Your Bod While It’s Gettin’ Some Lovin’.” Like many of the women profiled in your article, I have recently begun to...

 It’s a good question, actually. “La Bamba”: What, exactly, is that song about?Also: Can Mexicans eat anything without hot sauce? And this: Why do Mexicans swim with their clothes on? Those are just the printable – in this newspaper anyway – questions that Gustavo Arellano...

   Mark Twain once shrewdly observed, “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” The way we dress sends all sorts of signals to those around us, eliciting reactions ranging from amusement to admiration. Naturally, most men would prefer to...

Wednesday 4thSome more things we're just not on board with: the warmed-over meat loaf that is the new New York Times Thursday Styles section. White power males swimming naked? Yuck! (We give them exactly two weeks before they publish a feature on the "shaved scrotum"...