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The Rainmaker review – please don’t hurt your eyes trying to find anything good in this legal drama

From dialogue so hokey it could be printed on a tea towel to mind-numbing storylines – how can a glossy take on John Grisham’s novel about a fiery law graduate be so tedious?

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: a battle of the lawyers in this glossy John Grisham series

John Slattery stars in The Rainmaker, which is already a hit in the US. Plus: catch Fontaines DC’s set at Reading Festival. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

‘It costs them very little’ – John Grisham on threat to authors from AI stories

John Grisham was speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Tuesday.

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DNA twist: Grisham fan cracks life-and-death case

A lawyer's campaign has culminated in a legal victory worthy of a Grisham novel with laws banning life insurers from using genetic test results to deny cover.

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Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington teaming up for a legal thriller should be a perfect movie — but 32 years later, I think it missed the mark

I'm watching one of Denzel Washington's 52 movies every week this year, and this week, I'm reviewing "The Pelican Brief," a 1993 legal thriller with Julia Roberts that, unfortunately, is deeply flawed.

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I wrote a book about theft and deception – and now AI scams are flooding my inbox

Authors like me are being targeted by AI-powered accounts promising exposure and fake reviews

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The Reservation: Read it for the delicious people, not the prose

It did feel cruel, and not a little unfair, to give up all hope of good prose as early as page four, but that’s where it happened. It was right there in capital letters: “IT’S GRISHAM DAY, PEOPLE.” As in John Grisham, whose looming visit to Aunt Orsa’s — the…

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Half of UK authors fear AI could replace them – what my new research suggests about the future of the novel

Back in 2023, I was completing my doctorate on AI and gender bias and my debut novel, Something About Her, had just been published. It was also the year that many prominent authors including Jodi Picoult, John Grisham and George R.R. Martin filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for using their…

The Conversation

Benedict Cumberbatch, John Grisham and Ursula K. Le Guin’s fantasy maps: what to watch, read and see this week

The more I see Benedict Cumberbatch on screen the more I marvel at his talent as an actor. Recently I have watched him in Eric on Netflix, as an unravelling Sesame Street-style puppeteer looking for his abducted son; in old re-runs of smartypants Sherlock Holmes on the BBC; and as…

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John Grisham’s The Widow: a legal mystery that asks if a sleazy lawyer can ever be seen as a ‘good’ victim

Is there such a thing as the “perfect victim”? Is it an old lady who is suddenly mugged on the street? And where does a greedy lawyer, eager to profit from an elderly widow’s demise, fit in? Would we have sympathy if he was manipulated and wrongly accused of her…

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Texas Court Blocks Execution of Robert Roberson in Landmark 'Shaken Baby' Case

Roberson has been saved again from becoming the first person to be executed based on disputed evidence of Abusive Head Trauma, formerly called "shaken baby syndrome."

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Jason Bateman to direct Tom Holland in The Partner

Jason Bateman will direct Tom Holland in Josh Grisham adaptation The Partner.

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What to Stream: Offset, John Cena, John Grisham and legal fights by Jussie Smollett and Amanda Knox

Migos rapper Offset releasing his third solo album “Kiari” and Samara Weaving playing a reformed getaway driver in the heist thriller “Eenie Meanie” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you

The Independent UK

How To Watch The Rainmaker Online And Stream New Episodes Weekly From Anywhere

A promising young lawyer faces off in the courtroom against his fearsome former employer in this John Grisham adaptation. Find out how to watch The Rainmaker online and from anywhere now.

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How to watch The Rainmaker online – stream John Grisham TV adaptation from anywhere

As John Grisham's best-selling legal thriller gets the glossy boxset treatment, here we explain how to watch The Rainmaker online and stream from anywhere.

The Independent UK

USA Network is bringing back scripted TV. First up? John Grisham's 'The Rainmaker'

After getting out of the scripted TV business in 2021 for reality TV and sports coverage, USA Network is returning to air scripted originals with the legal drama “The Rainmaker."

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Wicker rejects the notion that Trump’s proposed $1 trillion fiscal 2026 defense budget will be enough to enhance U.S. military capabilities.

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Rory McIlroy Reveals the Surprising Book He's Reading During 2025 Masters Week

McIlroy is shifting back to novels as he chases elusive major.

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The Guardian - UK

US authors’ copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft combined in New York with newspaper actions

California cases over AI trainers’ use of work by writers including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Chabon transferred to consolidate with New York suits from John Grisham and Jonathan Franzen and more

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Tom Holland to star in adaptation of John Grisham's The Partner

Tom Holland will star in and produce 'The Partner', which is based on John Grisham's 1997 novel of the same name.

The Independent UK

The key moments as a Texas man faces execution in a shaken baby syndrome case

The Texas Supreme Court has ruled against a legislative subpoena that lawmakers used to stave off the execution of Robert Roberson

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What is shaken baby syndrome? Why might a Texas man be executed over it?

If Robert Roberson’s execution eventually goes ahead, it will be the first for shaken baby syndrome.

International Business Times

Texas Poised To Execute Autistic Man For 'Shaken Baby' Death

An autistic man whose murder conviction was based on a questionable diagnosis of "shaken baby syndrome" is to be executed in Texas on Thursday barring a last-minute stay from the US Supreme Court.

The Independent UK

A Texas execution is renewing calls for clemency. It's rarely granted

Texas rarely grants clemency for death row inmates, but that's not stopping a group of bipartisan lawmakers from showing their support for a man scheduled to be executed in October

The Guardian - US

John Grisham on death row prisoner: ‘Texas is about to execute innocent man’

‘There was no crime,’ says author about Robert Roberson who was convicted of murder based on discredited science

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