Photos of the United States (October 2017)

Images of Los Angeles, taken in October 2017. “Los Angeles (Spanish for ‘The Angels’) is the cultural, financial, and commercial centre of Southern California. With a US Census-estimated 2016 population of 3,976,322, it is the second most populous city in the United States (after New York City) and the most populous city in the state […]

Hard-Boiled & Soft-Centered

On this day, 26 March 1959, American crime novelist Raymond Chandler died. Here’s a look at his life and work. (This article was originally published in 2005 and appeared in the British magazine ‘Chapter and Verse’.) The Late Show You can picture the scene, a world-weary private detective, gun in hand, walks warily down a […]