Apropos the British Library's new exhibit, Murder in the Library, a formidable "A to Z" of crime fiction, today's Times Literary Supplement blog discusses the many authors of 19th and 20th century ...

One hundred years after his debut in February 1913's The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, Sax Rohmer's sinister criminal mastermind remains as memorable and iconic as any character in popular culture. The ...

It's hard to find a band more literate than The Mountain Goats, so it's appropriate that "Sax Rohmer #1," one of the best songs on the new Heretic Pride, is named for a writer. But Sax Rohmer — the ...

As a teen, I went through a heavy Sax Rohmer period, eagerly plowing through anything I could by the British thriller writer. The mid- to late-sixties was a good time for his fans. Spurred, in part, ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Sax Rohmer falls into the category – like HP Lovecraft – of truly great bad writers, and like Lovecraft he has only recently enjoyed ...

In the early decades of the 20th century, Britain buzzed with sinophobia. Respectable middle-class magazines, tabloids and comics alike spread stories of ruthless Chinese ambitions to destroy the west ...

Christopher Frayling's book on Chinaphobia is a welcome extension of the work that the Palestinian writer Edward Said initiated with his seminal Orientalism in 1978. Focusing on Arab culture, Said ...

The new line, which will bring long-lost classics back to print, begins with a Trina Robbins adaptation of a 1919 Sax Rohmer novel. By Graeme McMillan Sax_Rohmer_Dope_Cover - Publicity - H 2016 Ahead ...

He created pulp fiction villain Dr Fu Manchu, was friends with Harry Houdini and belonged to the same occult group as Aleister Crowley. But paperback writer Sax Rohmer’s exotic name hid a secret. He ...

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