The latest in our series of writers detailing their most rewatched comfort films is a reminder of Anthony Minghella’s starry, sad and sinister 1999 thriller
Sixteen is a great age to see a movie, ther…
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Patricia Highsmith
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7 months ago
Obsession, blackmail and Instagram: inside Lurker, the year’s most compelling thriller ○
The Talented Mr Ripley gets an upgrade in a buzzy and biting film about a desperate outsider who infiltrates the inner circle of a singer on the rise
If Tom Ripley lived in LA in 2018 and was really i…
When I moved in with the author of Mr Ripley, friends said they thought she was in love with me. But I was afraid this ill-tempered creator of ingenious murders was going to kill me ○
I first read Patricia Highsmith's novels in the autumn of 1994. I was 20 and living in a room in her house in Tegna, Switzerland, that was plastered with bookshelves.
8 months ago
Unmoored review – Scandi thriller delves into hidden truths of a toxic marriage ○
Atmospheric but unresolved drama pits a seedy academic against his ill-used wife, uneasily staying by him as he faces a rape charge
Expectations are raised high, but not satisfyingly met, in this init…
9 months ago
‘You are living with a difficult person who is waiting to die’: my harrowing time as Patricia Highsmith’s assistant ○
I worked for the author of The Talented Mr Ripley in her final months. She was so mean and secretive, I imagined she wanted to kill me
I first read Patricia Highsmith’s novels in the autumn of 1994. I…
Can I tame my 4am terrors? Arifa Akbar on a lifetime of insomnia – and a possible cure ○
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From Van Gogh’s starry skies to the nocturnal workings of Louise Bourgeois and Patricia Highsmith, sleepless nights have long inspired heightened creativity. Could those artistic impulses actually he…
11 months ago
Emma Jane Unsworth: ‘I blush when I think of Miranda July’s All Fours. I became a changed woman’ ○
The author of Slags on Patricia Highsmith, Judy Blume and her lifelong reaction to Yeats
My earliest reading memory
Probably a Garfield book when I was five or six. I loved Garfield. Mostly because h…
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