heist

Colson Whitehead’s latest foray into the bent world of “reluctant fence” Ray Carney — “Cool Machine,” the third and final installment of his Harlem Trilogy — is an American epic disguised as a heist novel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

It was the Peanut Butter heist that won me over.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, “Inception”—a script Nolan worked on for about a decade—is a heady heist film about “extractors” who invade other people’s dreams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

“You know how in the spy thriller or the heist movie, you’re introduced to the crew at the beginning,” Obama wrote.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

Right now he was posing as the Egyptian detective assigned to gather information about the museum heist the chameleon himself had pulled off in the first chapter.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff

The heists have prompted calls for better security to protect valuable artworks.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

"She would do anything for her family - and she joins them as a way to protect them from themselves and the real danger that is involved in heists."

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026

Collectors and shop owners have little doubt there’s a link between some heists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2026

Most museum heists in recent years—including ones in Germany, Italy, the U.K. and the Netherlands—have involved collections rich in gold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

She wasn’t investigating the jewelry heists and grave robbing I’d read about in the newspapers.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

Basically, the big internet platforms gobble up news outlets’ products and work without paying for it and build their own ad programs around the heisted articles.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024

The saga of Kelly’s heisted honeybees would rattle the beekeeper and the clients who sought his specially bred bees.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2021

During the latter stages of the LP’s production, the Beatles famously heisted one of EMI Studios’ experimental eight-track machines and produced several tracks with that more expansive sound palette.

From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2018

That’s a cliff-falling 65% drop from the movie’s Fri.–Sun. total a week ago, when it heisted $97.4 million on its way to a holiday weekend total of $117 million.

From Time ● Jun. 2, 2013

The lid was heisted, and mighty well it was.

From Successful Recitations by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)

In fact, heisting Manhattan turns out to be less farfetched than it sounds.

From Time Magazine Archive

The instrumental track "You Wish" beautifully invokes the spirit of Hendrix's "All Along The Watchtower" without ever wholesale heisting the original.

From Time Magazine Archive