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American Psycho

June 2024

  • Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.

    Modern masculinity
    The sad, stupid rise of the sigma male: how toxic masculinity took over social media

    His heroes are Patrick Bateman, John Wick, Tommy Shelby and Walter White. He follows Andrew Tate and idolises wolves. And he has quickly become a laughing stock. Welcome to the world of the sigma male

May 2021

  • Perfect parenting ... Ally and Paul, played by Daisy Haggard and Martin Freeman.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard are still chaotic parents

    The duo return for another series of Sky One comedy Breeders. Plus: a Supervet Special. Here’s what to watch this evening

April 2020

  • Christian Bale in American Psycho. The final joke is that nobody seems to notice that anything is all that wrong about him.

    American Psycho at 20: a vicious satire that remains as sharp as ever

    Mary Harron’s divisive adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel is a shrewd articulation of the source, with a star-making turn from Christian Bale

April 2019

  • Suzanne Moore

    Bret Easton Ellis is part dinosaur, part sage. I’m intrigued

    Suzanne Moore
  • Bret Easton Ellis

    Bret Easton Ellis: ‘My ability to trigger millennials is insane’

November 2018

  • Elle Hunt

    As American Psycho showed me, banning ‘immoral’ books makes them more compelling

    Elle Hunt
    My underage reading of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel seemed exciting at the time, but only because it was forbidden

June 2016

  • Sarah Polley

    Sarah Polley adapting Margaret Atwood crime novel for Netflix series

    The Canadian actor turned writer and director will adapt Atwood’s 1996 book, Alias Grace, into a miniseries, with American Psycho’s Mary Harron directing

April 2016

  • Patrick Bateman

    American Psycho's morning ritual: would Patrick Bateman’s routine work today?

  • This image released by Jeffrey Richards Associates shows Benjamin Walker, center, and the cast during a performance of “American Psycho,” opening at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in New York. (Jeremy Daniel/Jeffrey Richards Associates via AP)

    American Psycho review – Patrick Bateman sings, strips and slashes

  • Blood, glorious blood ... Matt Smith in the Almeida production of the American Psycho musical.

    Pass notes
    ‘There’s blood on my Burberry!’ – American Psycho causes a splash on Broadway

  • Bret Easton Ellis sits in a chair by a window, his feet perched in the window ledge

    Bret Easton Ellis still stuck with American Psycho after 25 years

March 2016

  • Rupert Goold - artistic director, Almeida Theatre

    Rupert Goold: American Psycho 'is absolutely as pertinent now'

  • Matt Smith (Patrick Bateman) in American Psycho @ Almeida Theatre. Directed by Rupert Goold. (Opening 12-12-13) Tristram Kenton 12/13 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Books blog
    Bret Easton Ellis: today's American Psycho would be an online troll

February 2016

  • Great partnerships... Stephen King’s It and Pet Shop Boys, Donna Tartt’s Secret History with the American Beauty soundtrack, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale with Beach House, and Kings of Convenience with Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore.

    Bookish blasts
    The best books-and-music pairings

    Listening to music and reading not only can go together, but can make fantastic partners and intensify both experiences. Here are your favourite pairings – with couples like Stephen King and Petshop Boys, sci-fi and Aphex Twin or Atwood and Beach House

July 2015

  • American Psycho must come wrapped in plastic for Australian audiences.

    American Psycho pulled from shelves by police in Australia

    Bret Easton Ellis’s satire of 80s consumerism falls foul of ‘classification law’ due to absence of sealed wrapper in Adelaide shop
  • Golden gate park

    Books blog
    Books that make great conversation starters – let's talk!

    Sometimes you just have to talk about a book, even if you’ve never met the person holding it. We’ve been sharing stories of such encounters all week, but what are the books that introduced you to the friends you hadn’t yet met?
  • David Foster Wallace

    Books blog
    The most American fiction – according to the rest of the world

    The site Literary Hub has asked writers and editors from around the world to list the quintessential American titles. Here’s what they came up with – do you agree?

January 2015

  • The film adaptation of American Psycho (2000), starring Christian Bale

    Rereading
    Irvine Welsh – American Psycho is a modern classic

    When published in 1991, Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho caused outrage for its depictions of violence, especially towards women. That was its point, argues Irvine Welsh – it is a brilliant depiction of the savage society we’ve created

July 2014

  • Matt Smith as Patrick Bateman in the UK adaptation of American Psycho.

    American Psycho musical to debut off Broadway next year

    Second Stage Theater to bring adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel to New York stage

May 2014

  • A fearful sight of blood and death … Flora Spencer-Longhurst and William Houston in Titus Andronicus

    Shortcuts
    There will be (fake) blood: five of the goriest theatrical bloodbaths

    They've been fainting in the aisles at the Globe, due to a stomach-churning production of Titus Andronicus. Michael Coveney has five more examples of the power of on-stage physical aggression

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