| 单词 | Graham Greene |
| 例句 | As I read, I enjoy the work of Graham Greene. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z All this political reading made me think the island was ripe for an all-out race riot and political revolution just like the Haiti Graham Greene had written about in The Comedians. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Or perhaps with some man in her living room, telling him about Graham Greene. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There’s a pen tied to the table, and when I punch the name in and hit return, all the titles of Graham Greene come up on-screen. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z On the bookshelf, Graham Greene caught his eye. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He gestured to the book on the kitchen table, Graham Greene’s The Heart of the Matter. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He liked to talk about Graham Greene, the British novelist, and his novel on Haiti, The Comedians, which narrated the story of the Duvaliers and their secret police. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z There is a book in the pocket of the trench coat, a copy of The Comedians by Graham Greene, with yellow pages and tiny print. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Soon after she returned to England, her father took her to lunch with Graham Greene. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He read newer authors as well, Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham, all purchased from his favorite stall on College Street with pujo money. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z So it was that Horizon folded after a decade of the likes of Louis MacNeice, Dylan Thomas and Graham Greene. Ten years of publishing worth its Salt 2010-07-30T13:45:00Z Graham Greene often plays a wise First Nations character; his tribal cop roles in "Thunderheart" and "Wind River" are classic examples of that trope. Actor Graham Greene on how fear & golf relate: "It's a game where you get to play against yourself" 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Graham Greene said that in response to the move all novelists, poets, and scientists should refuse to let their works be published in the Soviet Union. Alexander Solzhenitsyn is arrested: From the archive, 13 Feb 1974 2013-02-13T07:00:00Z Trevor’s talents often drew comparisons to Chekhov and to Joyce—Graham Greene called his book “Angels at the Ritz” “one of the best collections, if not the best, since James Joyce’s ‘Dubliners.’ ” William Trevor in The New Yorker 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Graham Greene’s whiskey priest risks his life to celebrate Mass in anticlerical Mexico. A Fictional Priest Uncovers a Long History of Clerical Child Abuse 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Graham Greene says, in Ways of Escape that Brighton Rock began in 1937 "as a detective story" and "continued as an error of judgment". Brighton Rock's themes are too big for the screen 2011-02-07T12:04:15Z There are shades here of Sarah, Graham Greene’s heroine in “The End of the Affair.” He’s 19. She’s 48 and Married. When They Play Doubles Tennis, It’s a Match. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Applying Graham Greene’s own definition of certain of his novels, his most recent picture story might best be described as an “entertainment.” When William Faulkner and Langston Hughes Wrote Children’s Books 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Claude was friends with Graham Greene and fought in the Spanish civil war with Hemingway. Danny DeVito: I still miss my father 2012-06-15T23:05:18Z She did not read modern fiction, only "anything from Graham Greene backwards". Dame Beryl Bainbridge obituary 2010-07-02T12:46:00Z And there’s something of Graham Greene, too, in the insights and authority on foreign affairs, the combination of moral complexity with entertainment. Review | In Elliot Ackerman’s ‘Red Dress in Black and White,’ a viral photo at a Turkish protest sets a plot in motion 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Graham Greene is deemed a “brilliant tightrope walker edging between God and his grubby little creatures” but nonetheless compares unfavorably to Isaac Bashevis Singer. His Roman Holiday Lasted a Lifetime 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z She was quickly cast opposite silver-tongued smoothie Charles Boyer in another literary thriller, Graham Greene’s Confidential Agent, about a Spanish republican trying to secure coal supplies during the civil war. Lauren Bacall: a career in clips 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Festival activities ranged from Graham Greene reading groups and a literary quiz to a walking tour of Berkhamsted, one of the settings for Greene's novel "The Human Factor." Leper colony novel would make great film, producer tells Greene fest 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Yet another distinguished Indigenous actor, Graham Greene, joins the cast. 30 Shows to Watch This Summer 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Before you could say Graham Greene, even "Hove, actually" would be rocking. Kathryn Hunter, actor – portrait of the artist 2013-02-26T17:00:03Z It was particularly infuriating for us as it implied to older Graham Greene fans that what in fact was a faithful adaptation could contain scenes not in the book. Putting the F-word in BBFC 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z Around the time Graham Greene was sued for commenting on her “desirable little body”, she became the object of a papal inspection to determine if she was a dwarf. Shirley Temple's belongings set for auction in Kansas City 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Not sure how classic Graham Greene’s “The Quiet American” is? By the Book: Julia Alvarez 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Photograph: Rex Features/Everett In overview, his movies can look like a series of Graham Greene novels rewritten by DH Lawrence. Werner Herzog: 50 years of potent, inspiring, disturbing films 2013-06-01T08:01:00Z Foreigners suspected of unacceptable anti-Americanism included Charlie Chaplin and Graham Greene. New Looks at the Fate of Foreigners in America, From the Privileged to the Most Vulnerable 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z I always thought Graham Greene had been shabbily treated by the movies, but Hemingway must have felt as if he'd been kicked right in the broken parts over and over again. A Farewell To Arms: a great movie but a terrible adaptation 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z His 1958 adaptation of Graham Greene’s “The Quiet American” changes the politics of the novel and sets up not only the grounds of liberal interventionism but also its tragedy. Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Rare "Escape" 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z In fact, taking anything as representative of Graham Greene is a perilous business. Travels with My Aunt and the many shades of Greene 2012-06-15T14:32:11Z His standard writing routine — an elaborate set of rituals inspired partly by the novelist Graham Greene — involves getting up around 4:30 a.m. to work with the goal of writing a single page a day. Erik Larson, Author of ‘Dead Wake,’ Seizes Historical Mysteries 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Indeed, there are passages here that owe as much to “Fawlty Towers” as they do to Graham Greene. ‘High Dive’ review: A bomb is ticking under the prime minister 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z I'm guessing the subtitle of the book, "An Entertainment," is a nod to Graham Greene. Dave Eggers on Trump and the perception of truth in unscripted lies 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z If it all sounds a bit grandiose to us now, it did, too, to Graham Greene, the English author of the 1955 spy novel “The Quiet American.” When America’s Cold War Strategy Turned Corrupt 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z An old-time publishing lion once told me that Graham Greene, when faced with an editor’s suggestion to change the title of a book, replied, “Easier to change publishers” — and did. Social Q’s: A Parent’s Cry for Help - Social Q’s 2013-01-18T21:36:25Z But plenty of other musicians and writers have made the place famous, including Graham Greene, who famously hunkered down here to write “The Third Man.” Stalking the Memory of Mozart in Vienna 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Graham Greene declared the Spy Who Came In From The Cold "the best spy story I ever read" - and it's probably safe to assume he'd read quite a few. Reading group: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - does genre matter? 2012-10-04T09:01:34Z What might have been a crisp and moody entertainment, in Graham Greene’s elevated sense of that word, distends. ‘Age of Vice’: A Lush Thriller Dives Into New Delhi’s Underworld 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene Bendrix, Greene's embittered narrator, recalls meeting his former lover's despised husband on Clapham Common. Ten of the best brolleys in literature 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z But a popular myth, lately dented by revivals of Terence Rattigan and Graham Greene, is further punctured by this production of Lesley Storm's intriguing family drama, which ran for 409 performances in 1949. Black Chiffon ? review 2011-01-18T22:01:01Z Unsurprisingly, the real impetus to the Catholic novel's mid-century rise was provided by converts: Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and, slightly later, Muriel Spark. DJ Taylor on the Catholic novel 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z Black African writers were in short supply back then, but Rudyard Kipling, Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway and Joseph Conrad were readily available. Author of ‘The Paris Wife’ reimagines the world of aviator Beryl Markham 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z "A mate of mine had just offered them some Graham Greene material and been told to go and try the Bodleian instead." Beatle droppings not for sale 2013-05-22T18:10:55Z “Graham Greene said he was the best editor he’d ever worked with,” James Pembroke, publisher of The Oldie, which Mr. Chancellor was editing at the time of his death, told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper. Alexander Chancellor, editor who transformed Spectator magazine, dies at 77 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Graham Greene wrote about going to bed in the evening and waking up to discover you’ve solved the writing problem that had been worrying you. Paddington's Forebear: A Talk With Michael Bond 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Osborne has been described as an heir to Graham Greene, and he shares with Greene an interest in what might be called the moral thriller. Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z One of the writers who was most interested in this secret universe was Graham Greene. Possessed by shades of Greene 2012-06-01T21:50:01Z He responds, animatedly for once, to the suggestion that Graham Greene, quizzed about his plots, would reply in the style of a solicitor or dry-rot inspector talking about a house. Cheers for Frears 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Written and directed by Rowan Joffe, based on the novel by Graham Greene. A stylish remake of 'Brighton Rock' 2011-09-29T20:00:05Z Graham Greene called her “the poet of apprehension.” Patricia Highsmith Lived Extravagantly, and Took Copious Notes 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z After Graham Greene died, the movies atoned by re-filming some of his novels, often quite well. A Farewell To Arms: a great movie but a terrible adaptation 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z In other words, a literary polymath — somewhat in the line of Graham Greene. John Banville’s New Murder Mystery Starts Like a Game of Clue 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z On "Longmire" I was able to bring Graham Greene and Tattoo Cardinal, and Gary Farmer in. Lou Diamond Phillips: "My entire career has been fighting against those labels" 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z He is currently finishing a memoir about his friendship with Graham Greene. Review | Donald Antrim’s ‘One Friday in April’ is a vital book about mental illness and recovery 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z He was a detector of dichotomies, when he wasn’t camped out like Graham Greene in a hotel bar. P.J. O’Rourke Wrote With High, Cranky Style in a Shrinking Tradition 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Inspired by Graham Greene and Eric Ambler, their works are taut, hardboiled explorations of unravelling minds, set in the dark shadows between the bright lights of the big city. Cathi Unsworth: women and noir 2012-06-29T21:55:21Z Mr. Scott’s Priest was animated by a tug of war between flesh and spirit, in the mold of a less tragic Graham Greene hero. Hot Priests and Wayward Libidos Run Wild on London’s Stages 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z The author Graham Greene said she was just too nubile for a nine-year-old. Obituary: Shirley Temple 2014-02-11T12:58:42Z He opened the newspaper to see pictures of "the writer Graham Greene" in Jamaica or Geneva, though he'd not been to those places recently. Possessed by shades of Greene 2012-06-01T21:50:01Z The only way to fathom myself, I decided eight years ago, was to spend all my time reading – and writing about – Graham Greene. Possessed by shades of Greene 2012-06-01T21:50:01Z Reading it, you felt echoes of Flannery O’Connor and Graham Greene. Sex and Faith Overheat in Jamie Quatro’s ‘Fire Sermon’ 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z The author Graham Greene said she was just too nubile for a nine year old. Obituary: Shirley Temple 2014-02-11T10:31:05Z My blog is called the Bomb Party, after the book by Graham Greene. Blog jam: The Bomb Party 2012-08-23T09:31:00Z It was the rare film of Graham Greene's work that the novelist was happy with, the only example of Orson Welles' that the actor liked well enough to watch on television. The superb, thrilling 'Third Man' returns in a brilliant restoration 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z Or was the ice pick that Graham Greene once said lurks in every writer's heart simply a weapon that Dahl delighted in wielding? Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales - review 2011-01-25T00:52:54Z A new series kicks off Thursday at Seattle Art Museum: "Shadow Street: The Best of British Film Noir" begins with "Went the Day Well?," a 1942 wartime thriller based on a Graham Greene story. Katharine Hepburn on tap in this week's film revivals 2012-03-29T20:30:08Z And if it's your first encounter with Graham Greene then I envy you all the more. Travels with My Aunt and the many shades of Greene 2012-06-15T14:32:11Z Take two fine memoirists to lunch, and before long they will be trading moments from their childhood when a door opened, as Graham Greene put it, and let the future in. Jimmy Carter and Jacqueline Woodson on Race, Religion and Rights 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z "Koch has an extraordinary power of evoking place," novelist Graham Greene once wrote, "and I feel now that Tasmania is part of my memory." Author Christopher Koch dies aged 81 2013-09-27T16:07:52Z Or the time he traveled to Haiti with Graham Greene and Truman Capote, with whom he subsequently visited Cuba, where they all went to the movies with Fidel Castro. For Peter Brook, the Experimental Showman, ‘Nothing Is Ever Finished’ 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z "I might almost be walking through Graham Greene's Quiet American," I wrote to a friend who had become a traveller in a somewhat Greenian vein. Possessed by shades of Greene 2012-06-01T21:50:01Z Aunt Augusta in Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene So often the sidekick, the aunt is a crucial figure in the travelling fiction genre. Jennie Rooney's top 10 women travellers in fiction 2010-06-23T12:23:00Z “I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused” — the line is from “The Quiet American,” Graham Greene’s 1955 novel about noble intentions gone awry in Vietnam. The Agony and the Ecstasy of Richard Holbrooke 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Greene was also shadowed, as many an eminence is, by a stranger who went around the world passing himself off as "Graham Greene" and doing the wildest things in his name. Possessed by shades of Greene 2012-06-01T21:50:01Z It was during that sojourn that he first read the books of Graham Greene, whose territory also ran from Africa to Mexico. Tom Russell sings of life from Hollywood to Mexico 2012-01-19T13:14:07Z Obituaries Letters Crosswords and nature notes Corrections What's the name of Graham Greene’s jaded journalist protagonist in The Quiet American? The riches of rags: newspapers in fiction – quiz 2012-11-29T16:38:07Z Such experiences have given him plenty to write about in his wry, witty songs that reference figures from British writer Graham Greene to Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. Tom Russell sings of life from Hollywood to Mexico 2012-01-19T13:14:07Z He’s certainly playing a character, at least in part one compounded from classic notions of the introspective, rugged-intellectual voyager, drawn from movies and from the pages of Hemingway and Graham Greene and Paul Theroux. Television: Anthony Bourdain?s ?Layover? on Travel Channel 2011-11-18T17:00:00Z Michael Caine in the 2002 film adaptation of Graham Greene's The Quiet American Tom Rachman has been a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press and worked as an editor at the International Herald Tribune. Tom Rachman's top 10 journalist's tales 2011-07-27T11:26:31Z The Côte d’Azur and its sunlight, reliably bright almost 300 days a year, has long been a siren for artists and writers — and train passengers — like Matisse, Picasso, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Graham Greene. A Writing Retreat by Rail, From Paris to the Côte d’Azur 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Quoting Graham Greene in his epigraph, the author evokes the skills of the master, with a story that sticks in the mind. An Expensive Education by Nick McDonell ? review 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z The Third Man was scripted by Graham Greene, but its most famous speech was improvised on the spot. Reel dilemma: are we condoning the conduct of Hollywood's tyrants by watching their films? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Both Yorke and Graham Greene, who was an air raid warden, were fairly convinced they wouldn't survive the war – which solved all sorts of existential problems. The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War – review 2013-01-18T09:00:02Z Previous writers to receive the award include DH Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene. AS Byatt says women who write intellectual books seen as unnatural 2010-08-20T18:37:00Z Photograph: Rex Most writers look on aghast as their works are desecrated by the cinema, but Graham Greene always got on exceedingly well with the medium. This week's new film events 2011-01-08T00:06:10Z It's the latest addition to the center's significant collection of the papers of modern and contemporary authors, including Doris Lessing, Graham Greene and Don Delillo. Ian McEwan's archives acquired by the Ransom Center 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z But it has fueled an extraordinary career as a novelist who’s not only reinvented the espionage thriller but also claimed his rightful place as an heir to Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene. Le Carré, the Con Man’s Son: Writer, Liar, Survivor, Spy 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Appetite for destruction … Graham Greene pours himself a whisky. Travels with My Aunt and the many shades of Greene 2012-06-15T14:32:11Z Mr. Mallon noted that her fans had begrudged her “even the time she spent on a brief memoir of her friendship with Graham Greene” — “Greene on Capri,” published in 2000. Shirley Hazzard, Novelist Who Charted Storm-Tossed Lives, Dies at 85 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Ronald Fraser's "Drought" is an uneven novel, but when it is good, it is very, very good — as in Graham Greene good. In Ronald Fraser's 'Drought,' outsider gets in path of village's future 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z I found this old edition of Graham Greene's "The Comedian" that had an interesting cover. Dave Eggers on Trump and the perception of truth in unscripted lies 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Not quite so well known is the fact that, some 40 years ago, he appeared in Graham Greene's The Potting Shed. This week's new theatre 2011-01-01T00:05:46Z Connections … Graham Greene on the film set of Our Man in Havana. Possessed by shades of Greene 2012-06-01T21:50:01Z Second world war propaganda film, based on a Graham Greene short story, dealing with German paratroopers who invade a British village. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-07-22T23:07:08Z Graham Greene scribbled the story’s opening on an envelope — “I had paid my last farewell to Harry a week ago, when his coffin was lowered into the frozen February ground.” 8 Cannes Film Festival Prizewinners We Love (and 3 We Don’t) 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Graham Greene brings his customary quiet power and dry wit to the role of the police chief. Review: Murder Mystery on the Reservation in ‘Wind River’ 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z “The Secret Guests” is not so much a thriller as what Graham Greene called “an entertainment,” and the tone is very reminiscent of the Greene of “England Made Me” or “Our Man in Havana.” An Irish Refuge for Two Royal British Sisters 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The book was Graham Greene’s “Heart of the Matter.” Personal Journeys: Camping in the Caribbean: A Mother-Daughter Adventure 2014-05-09T19:06:46Z A few months before joining the RAF in June 1943, Attenborough achieved his greatest stage success in Brighton Rock, adapted from the Graham Greene novel by Frank Harvey. Richard Attenborough obituary 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z The great exceptions to this rule are Charles Dickens and Graham Greene, I suppose because they were very visual writers and masters of plot. Ian Buruma: By the Book 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z As with Le Carré, Graham Greene is the perfect author for Fiennes, and in some ways it’s a surprise that Greene hasn’t featured more on his CV. Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z She was fond of quoting a line from her friend Graham Greene, that our lives are more influenced by books than people. A Modern Classic Addresses Elemental Questions About Love and Power 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Now all of Osborne’s extraordinary novels are en route to films, and our 21st-century Graham Greene doesn’t need me. Lionel Shriver Warns Readers Not to Meet Their Favorite Authors 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Inside the Golden Arrow salon car, paneled with Cuban mahogany and Lalique nymphets, one table was set in homage to the writer Graham Greene. A Writing Retreat by Rail, From Paris to the Côte d’Azur 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Played by Benoît Magimel with shambling delicacy, De Roller is like the French cousin of a character you might find in a Graham Greene novel or a tale by Joseph Conrad. ‘Pacifiction’ Review: Trouble in Paradise 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z A transgressive figure like Graham Greene used to quote Browning's fascination with "the dangerous edge of things" with approval. Dickens, Browning and Lear: what's in a reputation? 2012-05-17T13:17:32Z Graham Greene, who wrote about faith and doubt and self-betrayal as deeply as any novelist of the 20th century, said, “The creative act seems to remain a function of the religious mind.” Philip Roth’s retirement lesson 2013-02-12T12:39:00Z Just to add to those snapshots: he also regularly entered a New Statesman competition calling for pastiches of Graham Greene's style – and once took second place. Travels with My Aunt and the many shades of Greene 2012-06-15T14:32:11Z I’m currently reading Thomas Ricks’s “Churchill and Orwell. Graham Greene’s memoir, “Ways of Escape,” is a book I’ve read many times but keep coming back to. Anthony Bourdain: By the Book 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z "We were a generation," Graham Greene later wrote in Ways of Escape, "brought up on adventure stories who had missed the enormous disillusionment of the first world war, and so we went looking for adventure." The Love-charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel – review 2013-01-20T09:00:03Z Realist novels occasionally do this to evoke a sense of folklore, giving us the Whiskey Priest of Graham Greene’s “The Power and the Glory” and the Consul of Malcolm Lowry’s “Under the Volcano.” The Rise of the Nameless Narrator 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z I think Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene both did so in the 1930s, and didn’t even mention in their books that the fellow traveller was there. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z In Graham Greene’s 1940 novel, “The Power and the Glory,” the unnamed protagonist, a “whisky priest,” utters the book’s most resonant line. Books of The Times: ?Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb? 2010-08-05T22:00:00Z Graham Greene, to whom Priscilla’s father had been kind, returns the favor by naming a fictional character for him. Books of The Times: In ‘Priscilla,’ Nicholas Shakespeare Looks at Family Mystery 2013-12-26T19:35:00Z Though just five stories tall, the hotel, a favorite of Graham Greene, is high enough to offer a sweeping view of the city, its port and the Sierra Maestra Mountains just beyond the city limits. Deep in the Birthplace of Cuban Rum and the Daiquiri 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z The centrepiece is Brighton Rock Unseen, a tribute to Graham Greene's original novel and the iconic 1947 movie it spawned. This week's new film events 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z In an interview at around the time of his 75th birthday, Le Carré admitted that he feared producing in older age the sort of low-energy novellas that completed the shelf of his hero Graham Greene. A Delicate Truth by John Le Carré – review 2013-04-19T06:30:01Z Stevenson's criticisms appear in a brief, long-lost essay published Friday in The Strand Magazine, a quarterly based in Birmingham, Mich. that has published obscure texts by Mark Twain, Graham Greene and other famous authors. Long-lost essay by 'Dr. Jekyll' author published 2013-03-14T11:45:09Z With its suspicion of Western imperialism and its skeptical hero, who finds more in common with the Iraqis than with his fellow Americans, the novel is a spiritual cousin to Graham Greene’s “The Quiet American.” These Radical Black Thrillers Fantasized About Dismantling the Police 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z We were there for a literary festival, and we spent several days walking around, eating street food and poking our heads around corners and being like bemused Graham Greene types together. This Week in Fiction: Jonathan Lethem on the Poignance of Backgammon 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Power, a literary critic in London, surely must have been thinking of Graham Greene’s “The Third Man” when he wrote this elegant suspense novel. Review | ‘A Lonely Man’ is an elegant suspense novel in the tradition of the ‘The Third Man’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z Graham Greene famously classified certain of his novels as “entertainments.” Brooklyn Man Finds New Life in Crime (Writing) 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z The film is to be made in a British studio with Shaw's text edited by Graham Greene - but, according to Mr Preminger, almost unaltered except for the demands of a different medium. From the archive, 5 October 1956: The search for an unknown Saint Joan 2012-10-05T06:30:00Z Obama, though, doesn't seemed to have been hampered by any of his choices, or indeed by another book he revealed to the New York Times: Graham Greene's The Quiet American. Books and the ballot box 2010-05-04T10:00:00Z And, currently, we might even exclude Graham Greene – who was, in his prime, routinely hailed as a 20th century great – from their company. Is there a 'number one' writer today? 2010-09-20T14:12:00Z Plame, who just released her second fictional novel, “Burned,” a sequel to “Blowback,” is a voracious reader of Le Carré and Graham Greene. Valerie Plame: Most female spies in pop culture are gun-wielding eye candy 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z A smattering of correspondence with Graham Greene, whom le Carré praised to his face but sniped about behind his back. John le Carré’s Letters Show the Author at His Witty, Erudite and Pugilistic Best 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Taking in the scene at Lion’s Den, I thought about Graham Greene and seediness and the sense of longing for something lost. For Ybor City in Florida, a historic cigar town faces a cloudy future 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z In the end, the Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and Henry James novels got the heave-ho. Your Book Editor Just Snagged Your Spot on the Best-Seller List 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Every year around this time he must feel just like Graham Greene: another diss from the Nobel Committee, and another middling adaptation of one of his novels. American Pastoral: why can't cinema get Philip Roth right? 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z "Graham Greene sent some of his prowling unbelievers on it" – and took it himself. John Mullan on The Great Railway Bazaar – Guardian book club 2013-06-07T17:00:01Z If you read Dickens, if you read Trollope, if you read Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh. Get Reading: London's glittering reading marathon 2013-07-17T15:32:16Z The book tells us little that's fresh or unexpected about the poet, but it tells us next to everything about Graham Greene – or, at least, about the old man the young writer would become. Possessed by shades of Greene 2012-06-01T21:50:01Z When he died, in 1940, Graham Greene wrote that it felt like "the obscure death of a veteran – an impossibly Napoleonic veteran, say, whose immense memory spanned the period from Jena to Sedan". Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z It was Graham Greene himself — a resident of the French Riviera — who publicly reveled in the literary freedom of train travel, out of reach from distracting letters and telegrams. A Writing Retreat by Rail, From Paris to the Côte d’Azur 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z There’s some Graham Greene in the shifting moral ambiguities in “Peacekeeping.” Review: Mischa Berlinski’s ‘Peacekeeping,’ a Portrait of Haiti 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z He chose instead – luckily, given the brilliance of the original film – to adapt the Graham Greene novel. Sam Riley shot to fame as the doomed Ian Curtis in Control. Now he's playing creepy Pinkie in Brighton Rock 2011-01-12T08:00:03Z This is still one of the great literary cameos in film history — on a par with Graham Greene in Truffaut’s Day for Night. Bernardo Bertolucci: the brilliant last emperor of highbrow cinema 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Yet comparisons to Graham Greene and Paul Bowles might already qualify as trite. Let’s not mince words: Lawrence Osborne’s ‘Beautiful Animals’ is a great book 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Having said that, I also have some concern for those coming to Graham Greene for the first time. Travels with My Aunt and the many shades of Greene 2012-06-15T14:32:11Z She will soon be seen as Ida in a remake of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock. David Thomson on Helen Mirren 2010-10-14T22:00:00Z It’s the human factor, to borrow somewhat perversely a phrase from Graham Greene, who worked for Britain’s foreign intelligence agency MI6. Movie Review: ‘Skyfall,’ With Daniel Craig as James Bond 2012-11-07T19:59:51Z In her copy of Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory she has drawn an elaborate map of the whiskey priest's journeyings, complete with little towns and mountains. From the margins 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z Once, after having lunch with President Allende in Chile, Greene was briefly taken to be the "unreal Graham Greene", a fake, and started to wonder whether he was just a figment of the impostor's imagination. Possessed by shades of Greene 2012-06-01T21:50:01Z Some of the magazine’s contributors were unknown, and others were celebrated figures such as the novelist Graham Greene, who seldom wrote for magazines. Alexander Chancellor, editor who transformed Spectator magazine, dies at 77 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z In the years that led to the next war, great spy fiction like Eric Ambler’s “A Coffin for Dimitrios” and Graham Greene’s “The Ministry of Fear” dealt with shadowy business interests agitating for armed conflict. The Trump era is posing some major challenges for thriller novelists 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z But Cornwell also knows what being a grifter’s son gave him, quoting Graham Greene’s observation that childhood is any author’s “credit balance.” Review: 'The Pigeon Tunnel' is spy versus spy, as clever documentarian meets cagey novelist 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z I have a new resolution — not always kept to and apparently, I was told the other day, also shared with Graham Greene — to write a page a day. Why mystery-lit icon Kate Atkinson went apocalyptic 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z Simon & Schuster did publish Philip Roth, Graham Greene and Joan Didion, among others, and Snyder played a direct role in making the company a favorite home for the inside story on Washington. Richard Snyder, ‘warrior-king’ of publishing who presided over rise of Simon & Schuster, dead at 90 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z He said he knew just the thing and lent me a copy of “The Quiet American,” by Graham Greene. Perspective | The books I read to understand the Vietnam War 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z I also thought of a recent episode in “The Last of Us,” which featured Graham Greene and Elaine Miles in a short but impactful scene as a couple laughing through the apocalypse. How ‘Between Two Knees’ at Seattle Rep finds the comedy in tragic Indigenous history 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z However, Obama reveals a burden straight from the pages of Kipling or Graham Greene. Way up there in blue: Seven children dead in Kabul — who is to blame? 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z Evangelicals prove through appropriation that they are missing out on the power of myth, on the sacramental nature of reality, on what Graham Greene called “the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.” Opinion | Frederick Buechner was a writer tuned in to the frequency of grace 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z By his late teens, Campbell was devouring John Steinbeck’s novels, Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” the works of Graham Greene and Albert Camus, even Jean Cocteau. Review | The tale of a dropout who found purpose in books, travel and just living 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z They are often viewed as wanting to cast other nations in their image, a criticism cleverly distilled in Graham Greene’s novel “The Quiet American.” Welcome to Portugal, the new expat haven. Californians, please go home 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Wilson: Yeah, like Graham Greene did “Maverick” way back in the day and that was like the most genuine Native comedy I’ve seen in a major motion picture. How ‘Between Two Knees’ at Seattle Rep finds the comedy in tragic Indigenous history 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z The outdoor décor time-travels back to a Graham Greene era before the fall of Saigon, in festive yellow and orange hues and women on the speakers singing about a magical countryside. 10 great Seattle-area restaurants that offer a cozy winter outdoor dining experience 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z As Graham Greene wrote in “The Comedians,” his 1966 novel about Haiti, “It is astonishing how much money can be made out of the poorest of the poor with a little ingenuity.” Op-Ed: In Haiti, the battle for leadership is really a battle for loot 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z It is the fatal disease of empire, captured in Graham Greene's novel "The Quiet American" and Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient." Unraveling of the American empire: A series of military debacles point toward a tragic end 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z The 1996 novel, Tailor of Panama was inspired by the Graham Greene story, Our Man in Havana, while The Constant Gardener, published in 2000, saw him switch his attention corruption in Africa. Obituary: John le Carré 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z With fellow Briton Graham Greene, le Carré helped redefine the spy novel, and showed that when done well, such works could be read as high art. John le Carré, spy novelist transcended pulp genre to literary art, has died 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z Lansdale gives the book its title, borrowed from Graham Greene’s novel “The Quiet American,” rumored to be based on Lansdale’s misadventures in Southeast Asia. Review | The rise of the CIA and the decline of America’s moral standing 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z She recalls reaching for classic novels by other authors who did this – Elizabeth Bowen and Graham Greene – whenever she lacked insight into her feelings as a young woman. Tolstoy, Steinbeck, Defoe – why are so many turning to classic novels? 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z There’s a whiff of “The Year of Living Dangerously,” a little “Air America” and some Graham Greene. Review: ‘The Last Thing He Wanted’ is alarmingly unthrilling 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Graham Greene remarked that a novelist needed a chip of ice in his heart. John le Carré on Brexit: ‘It’s breaking my heart’ 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z I have to admit, of all the spare parts from which “Bad Boys for Life” has been cobbled together, I wasn’t expecting Graham Greene’s “The End of the Affair.” Review: 'Bad Boys for Life' is a meditation on mortality — sort of 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Diederich was also known for his close friendship with the famed English novelist Graham Greene, whose Haiti-set 1966 “The Comedians” was made into a movie starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Longtime Caribbean journalist Bernard Diederich dead at 93 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z The End of the Affair by Graham Greene A male novelist – unmarried, living a solipsistic existence in south London during the blitz – begins an affair with a senior civil servant’s wife. Top 10 novels about adultery | Douglas Kennedy 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Graham Greene’s novel “The Quiet American” viewed U.S. foreign policy with contempt, defining it as a perilous mix of naivete and hubris. In the Trump impeachment hearings, career diplomats are the unlikely stars 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Shortly before her 15th birthday, Ms. Lynley was appearing on Broadway in Graham Greene’s “The Potting Shed” and soon thereafter was featured in Life magazine. Carol Lynley, actress in 1972 blockbuster ‘The Poseidon Adventure,’ dies at 77 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z The dyspeptic English novelist Graham Greene — a brilliant literary stylist who featured in my biography of the real “Quiet American,” Edward Lansdale — kept a home on Capri for decades. Opinion | The perfect vacation requires the right book 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z So it was that I was rereading Graham Greene’s “The Power and the Glory,” the story of the unnamed “whiskey priest” who is executed by an anticlerical Mexican government in the 1930s. Opinion | Trump never takes a vacation from provocation 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z He's intelligent and educated, but in a way that reads as traditional and conscientious, instead of challenging or cosmopolitan — he seems like he was more interested in Graham Greene than Michel Foucault in college. Thank God for Pete Buttigieg, the Christian right's kryptonite 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Each gets a lot of energy from its setting, as if an episode of the late Anthony Bourdain's “Parts Unknown” had been strained through Alfred Hitchcock or Graham Greene and stretched into a mystery miniseries. Review: Amazon's thrillers ‘The Widow’ and ‘White Dragon’ are potato-chip bingeable 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z The hotel, one block east of Hoan Kiem Lake, has suites named after prominent past guests — Charlie Chaplin, Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham. After Day of Compliments, Trump and Kim Jong-un Will Negotiate Face to Face 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z I thought I had found the sacred site when an elderly Italian man told us, “The a--hole Graham Greene? He lived down there.” Opinion | The perfect vacation requires the right book 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z “The believer will fight another believer over a shade of difference: the doubter fights only with himself,” says Father Quixote, my favourite Graham Greene character. Why Michelle Obama’s memoir should have demanded more of us 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z In this guise, the novel exhibits the reportorial authority you might expect, with a command of detail, context, and pace reminiscent of a reality-brined adventurer like Graham Greene or Robert Stone. The 9/11 Novel That Finally Understands the Fulfillments of Faith 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z There is also a British author, Graham Greene, that I’m very interested in right now – I’m reading his novel, The Power and the Glory, at the moment. Yan Lianke: ‘The situation for writers in China is complex’ 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z This is why families and friends are rightly wary of us, and why Graham Greene said there was no such thing as a boring lunch, just an opportunity to gather material. How free should novelists be to imagine radically different lives? 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z He cites Paul Bowles as his favorite author, yet as a British writer living in a foreign culture, he is most often compared to Graham Greene, another one of his heroes. Lawrence Osborne does Raymond Chandler quite well, thank you 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z When he started out with his travel shows, Bourdain wrote that he thought of the works of writers Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene. Books were good to Anthony Bourdain — but TV was even better 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Script by Graham Greene based on his own story. The Moviegoer, March 11-17 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z And if I stumbled on something good—like an early evening showing of the 1958 film version of Graham Greene’s “The Quiet American”—I didn’t have a self-imposed, overachieving itinerary to prod me on. The ‘Mystery Vacation’ Trend: What Will Your Destination Be? 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Published in 1996, when Garland was 26, the novel earned praise and heady comparisons to Graham Greene. Alex Garland Stands by His Vision for ‘Annihilation’ 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Among the books are collections of W. Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene as well as detective fiction. Hundreds of books owned by Warren Zevon to be sold 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Among the books are collections of W. Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene novels as well as detective fiction. Hundreds of books owned by Warren Zevon to be sold 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z I’d tried reading Graham Greene, but had never made much headway. Henry Green’s Party Going: an eccentric portrait of the idle rich 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z God the father, who goes by the name of Papa, is a figure of beaming maternal warmth incarnated by Octavia Spencer — and later, with paternal gruffness, by Canadian First Nations actor Graham Greene. A father has a personal encounter with God in the eccentric, kitschy 'The Shack' 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z He reread the novels of Graham Greene when planning the novel – “as I kid I revered him” – and Bruno’s escapades in Singapore have a nicely colonial Greene-ish feel. Jonathan Lethem: ‘I’ve always thought of myself as a dark writer, but this is utterly different’ 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z “Books and films, that was what he knew—what he had read in Graham Greene, what he had seen in ‘Apocalypse Now.’ ” Anthony Bourdain’s Moveable Feast 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Addicted by then, I continued through the centuries to Evelyn Waugh, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene and on and on into France and America, Germany and Ireland. A new year that changed me: I gave up weed – and became a book addict instead | Kit de Waal 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z She also wrote a memoir about her friend Graham Greene, “Greene in Capri,” and two books about the United Nations, where she worked in the 1950s. Award-winning novelist, Shirley Hazzard, has died at 85 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z These were some of the reasons, no doubt, why Cuba appealed to the patron saint of modern doubters, Graham Greene; the island became a cathedral of ambiguities. Inside Fidel Castro's Cuba — And His Legacy 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z Endo was called “the Japanese Graham Greene” and was considered for the Nobel Prize. The Passion of Martin Scorsese 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z “Did Graham Greene use a lot of chapters?” He's coming to terms with middle age. His Batman-themed party is proof 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z In the late 1920s, hundreds of priests were killed during a period of anti-clerical turmoil described by Graham Greene in his novel The Power and the Glory. 'Narcos alone rule': Mexico shaken after three priests killed within a week 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z You could be reading Anthony Powell or Graham Greene, the pleasure of it is the same. The life of John le Carré by the only one who can give it the le Carré treatment 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Going back a generation or two, Graham Greene is a writer we’ve forgotten about lately. Novelist Russell Banks on Train Travel and Nostalgia-Inducing Hotels 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Graham Greene's novel Our Man in Havana remains perhaps the funniest - but also the most perceptive - critique of the intelligence world. The intelligence questions for Chilcot - BBC News 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z Maybe he did nothing more than sprawl on a Moroccan beach with a copy of Graham Greene, glance at Russian tourists, and feed them into his daydream of a plot. “Independence Day”: Peace No More 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z The editor’s labours recall the travails of Norman Sherry, the indefatigable biographer of Graham Greene. Francis Bacon: creating order from chaos 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Whenever he could, he shirked duty to immerse himself in novels by Graham Greene and Joseph Heller; sometimes he read to his fellow-officers from “Catch-22,” which seemed especially relevant. A Pakistani Novelist Tests the Limits 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z If it weren't for the poverty, disease, bloodshed, war and death accompanying it, it might even be amusing, like something out of a late Graham Greene novel. Keep the Candle of Freedom Burning in the Congo 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Sometimes, for better but generally for worse, Graham Greene seems to be a persistent example for Berlinski. Imagining Haiti’s Inner Life 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z They also formed the backdrop for “The Quiet American,” the Graham Greene novel set during Vietnam’s war for independence from France in the early 1950s, and for indelible images of the Vietnam War. Ho Chi Minh City’s Shifting Skyline Stirs a Movement to Preserve History 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z But at the same time I was also reading Graham Greene and I think my writing was more influenced by him. 'Women are more interesting than men': Simon Mawer on Tightrope 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z From Graham Greene to David Lodge, writers have immortalised the contraption in English literature. Lovin' their elevator: why Germans are loopy about their revolving lifts 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Sloppy Joe's also figured in a piece of British culture, the book and film "Our Man in Havana," Graham Greene's story of a bumbling spy. Beyond the embassy, tourist attractions all over Havana attest to complicated US-Cuban history 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z It is how Graham Greene writes, and it is how thousands of writers who are not as talented as Graham Greene or Mischa Berlinski also write. Imagining Haiti’s Inner Life 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z “Most of the stuff associated with Graham Greene is gone.” Ho Chi Minh City’s Shifting Skyline Stirs a Movement to Preserve History 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z That’s a classic Graham Greene line, naming the thing and the definition and the precision. 'Women are more interesting than men': Simon Mawer on Tightrope 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Ancestors of the novelist Graham Greene, the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott all received compensation for slaves. The history of British slave ownership has been buried: now its scale can be revealed 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Mrs Brown said the author was interested in the Victorian era, and the third idea refers to Graham Greene's nickname for his less serious works. Harper Lee planned more novels, letter reveals - BBC News 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z “The Third Man,” penned by Graham Greene, will likely always seem relevant for its depiction of postwar crime and the allure of Welles’ charming, rationalizing gangster. Restored ‘The Third Man’ emerges again from the shadows 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z "The Third Man," penned by Graham Greene, will likely always seem relevant for its depiction of postwar crime and the allure of Welles' charming, rationalizing gangster. Restored 'The Third Man' emerges again from the shadows 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z The journal has covered the reigns of 13 Popes in the years since, with writers Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene among its contributors. Thanksgiving service for The Tablet's 175th birthday - BBC News 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Among those who received payouts were the ancestors of novelists George Orwell and Graham Greene. The history of British slave ownership has been buried: now its scale can be revealed 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z “Find me an uncomplicated child, Pyle,” challenged the journalist Thomas Fowler in “The Quiet American,” by Graham Greene, adding: “When we are young we are a jungle of complications. We simplify as we get older.” Sally Mann’s Exposure 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Collectively and individually, they earned Mr. Stone comparisons to a wide range of literary lions, from Beckett to Hemingway to Graham Greene. Robert Stone, Novelist of the Vietnam Era and Beyond, Dies at 77 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z At Drake High School in Marin County, he taught English and had Steve, the youngest of his six children, in a class on the works of Graham Greene. Steve Lavin and St. John’s Brace for New Season and High Expectations 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z But this was but one achievement by the man once described as "a cross between Indiana Jones, Graham Greene and James Bond". The man who hiked across Europe and kidnapped a general 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Similarly, Carrère seems happiest to work at what Graham Greene called "the dangerous edge of things." Emmanuel Carrère: the most important French writer you've never heard of 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z The surge in his popularity possibly places him nearer Graham Greene than James Joyce on the Richter scale of literary vibration, but McEwan's back-list is a staple of the school syllabus. Ian McEwan: 'I'm only 66 – my notebook is still full of ideas' 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z In 1947, Attenborough gave one of the best performances of his career as the teenage thug Pinkie in “Brighton Rock,” the film version of Graham Greene’s novel. Correction: Britain-Obit-Richard Attenborough 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Attenborough’s breakthrough performance was in “Brighton Rock,” based on a novel by Graham Greene, in which he played a teenage gangster in a seaside resort town who preys on an innocent girl. Richard Attenborough, director of ‘Gandhi,’ dies at 90 In 1947 Mr. Attenborough gave one of the best performances of his career as the teenage thug Pinkie in “Brighton Rock,” the film version of Graham Greene’s novel. Actor-director Richard Attenborough dies at 90 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Its close ties with the worlds of literature and film also fueled the legend of the Orient Express, inspiring authors like Graham Greene, Joseph Kessel, Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming and Agatha Christie. The Luxurious Orient Express Train Rolls Into Paris In A One-Of-A-Kind Exhibition 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Graham Greene knew quite a lot about this. The double life of the writer with a family 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Richard Morse, manager of the storied Hotel Oloffson, which Graham Greene immortalized in his novel “The Comedians,” asserts the government’s vision of a new capital city is dishonest. Plans to rebuild Haiti capital displace families 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z The future president arrived in Chicago with little knowledge of Catholicism other than the Graham Greene novels and “Confessions” of St. Augustine he had read during a period of spiritual exploration at Columbia. The Catholic Roots of Obama’s Activism 2014-03-23T00:50:15Z The novelist Graham Greene wrote the screenplay for the 1949 film, which features haunting zither music. Musical of The Third Man planned 2013-06-27T19:22:32Z Graham Greene - a long-standing admirer and a religious believer - wrote that churches feature in de La Mare's stories as stone memorials of a dead religion. Ghosts in the material world 2013-05-03T16:37:10Z It’s hard to know what Graham Greene would have made of people telling their Twitter “followers” that they’re looking forward to seeing friends none of them have heard of. The double life of the writer with a family 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z His bookselling business did have success with Graham Greene's short stories, but such successes were rare. Tim Waterstone: 'If reading is going be all digital in 50 years, so be it' 2013-04-09T17:21:30Z He dubbed his venture Whisky Priest in homage to Graham Greene, himself an enthusiast of uncommon and unjustly forgotten literary efforts. Bits: Publishing Without Perishing 2013-01-01T19:53:29Z "It was like a scene out of a Graham Greene novel: a Central American strongman and an Oxford-educated Briton sat beneath a coconut tree on a tropical beach philosophizing," wrote Diederich. Book gives up-close look at Graham Greene's political writing 2012-11-23T06:01:18Z Graham Greene, who wrote the screenplay, credited the lines to Welles, and it seems clear the actor added them when some extra dialogue was needed while the film was being shot. Are tyrants good for art? 2012-08-10T16:42:53Z The dog-eared hardbacks in the shop's library include copies that used to be owned by the likes of Graham Greene and Jean Paul Sartre. The ultimate cure for writer’s block? 2012-07-17T23:05:38Z At one point during General Stroessner’s rule, the writer Graham Greene warned that visitors risked being shot in the street by police officers if they did not understand Guaraní. Memo From Paraguay: In Paraguay, Indigenous Language With Unique Staying Power 2012-03-12T05:22:43Z Footloose and handsome, he was a flesh-and-blood character out of Graham Greene, with more than a dash of Hemingway and Ian Fleming shaken in. John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74 2012-02-18T21:12:50Z Tall, brutally handsome and modest, he had a British accent plucked from a Graham Greene novel and the body fat of a Diet Coke. The Media Equation: War, in Life and Death 2011-04-25T02:00:24Z The film features biking scenes reminiscent of 1979's Quadrophenia The stars and director of Brighton Rock discuss their new version of Graham Greene's 1938 novel - a slasher film with a difference. Does Brighton still rock? 2011-02-04T01:13:08Z Narayan, Graham Greene, along with a few dozen others, argues a level of obtuseness rising almost to the sublime. A Rare Swedish Triumph 2010-10-09T00:18:00Z It was one of the oldest in the former British colony and, thanks to Graham Greene, by far the best known. End of the hotel 2010-05-22T11:08:00Z Who can offer words unsullied by the Age like the sad integrity of a Graham Greene? Unmanned The year is 1964, three decades on from the period in which Graham Greene's novel is set, but still removed enough to seem sedate and quaint to modern sensibilities. Does Brighton still rock? 2011-02-04T01:13:08Z |
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