Patricia Highsmith
Loving Highsmith review – a thorough profile of the Ripley author, one issue aside…
Patricia Highsmith comes across as a difficult character in a film portrait that doesn’t dig too deep into her antisemitism, but elsewhere tells us much
Xan Brooks
16, Apr, 2023 @11:30 AM
Loving Highsmith review – Ripley author tribute soft-pedals writer’s nasty side
Ostensibly about the relationships of the celebrated novelist, this documentary is coy about Patricia Highsmith’s obsessiveness and antisemitism
Peter Bradshaw
11, Apr, 2023 @8:00 AM
What links Cate Blanchett’s new film Tár to Sissy Spacek and hot sauce?
A composer and conductor opens the door to Loretta Lynn, Wings of Desire and classic 90s rock from Goo Goo Dolls
Larry Ryan
07, Jan, 2023 @1:00 PM
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in December
Critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments
Lucy Knight, The Candid Book Club and Guardian readers
04, Jan, 2023 @3:08 PM
Leave Elf on the shelf: why Carol should be at the top of everyone’s Christmas movie list
Todd Haynes’ bittersweet jewel has glam Cate Blanchett and ingenue Rooney Mara falling in love in the tinselly 50s, a must for sophisticated festive film fans
Hannah Jane Parkinson
23, Dec, 2022 @9:00 AM
Top 10 novels about toxic friendships | Charlotte Northedge
Complex attachments mixing intimacy and deception can decide whole lives, and have inspired novelists from William Thackeray to Elena Ferrante
Charlotte Northedge
16, Mar, 2022 @12:00 PM
Deep Water review – erotic thriller loves Ben Affleck’s slack-jawed look
Hollow-faced Affleck becomes murderously obsessed with wife Ana de Armas’s infidelities in baffling return from Fatal Attraction’s Adrian Lyne
Peter Bradshaw
14, Mar, 2022 @9:00 AM
Olivia Laing: ‘I’m sorry, but Jane Eyre is a horrendous little hysteric’
The British writer on discovering Barthes, channelling Burroughs and appreciating the talents of Patricia Highsmith’s Mr Ripley
Olivia Laing
25, Feb, 2022 @10:00 AM
Diaries and Notebooks by Patricia Highsmith review – sex, booze and cold-blooded murders
These philosophical, sometimes grumpy journals, unearthed after the doyenne of suspense fiction’s death, shine a light on her dual identities, the contempt she felt for other people and her erotic misadventures
Peter Conrad
21, Nov, 2021 @7:00 AM
Bed-hopping, martinis and self-loathing: inside Patricia Highsmith’s unpublished diaries
From her carefree 20s and countless affairs, to literary success and later-life bigotry and rancour, the author’s extraordinary diaries reveal a woman determined to chart her own course
Emma Brockes
13, Nov, 2021 @11:00 AM
A half-shaven head? A handbag of snails at a cocktail party? I just adore a true eccentric | Hannah Jane Parkinson
There is probably something in the idea that quirkiness or slightly odd behaviour might have a link with mental illness, neurodiversity or creative skill
Hannah Jane Parkinson
21, May, 2021 @6:00 AM
Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith – review
When friends mean less than plots ... a flawed portrayal of the noir novelist as a figure bordering on the grotesque
Kathryn Hughes
22, Jan, 2021 @9:00 AM
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