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Bret Easton Ellis

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

August 2023

  • Bret Easton Ellis

    The books of my life
    Bret Easton Ellis: ‘I connected with Quentin Tarantino’

    The US author on discovering Stephen King, being inspired by Joan Didion, and losing himself in film criticism

January 2023

  • Bret Easton Ellis

    Books interview
    Bret Easton Ellis: ‘James and the Giant Peach changed my life’

    The provocative novelist on looking back at his teenage self, the sales generated by a hostile Q&A and his obsession with Marilyn Monroe
  • a lone car on the road on Mulholland Drive, Los Angeles, California

    Observer book of the week
    The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis review – an inspired fever dream of a book

    A teenage Bret and his uber-privileged friends cruise around 80s LA while a serial killer stalks the city in a gleefully meta return to form by the author of American Psycho
  • Bret Easton Ellis

    Book of the day
    The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis review – a triumphant return to form

    Ellis’s first novel in 13 years brilliantly fictionalises the secrets and desires of his high school years and the birth of his dark literary persona

December 2020

  • Smiley Face Killers (Signature Entertainment, 14th December 2020) Press publicity film still

    Smiley Face Killers review – a blunt blade from Bret Easton Ellis

    The American Psycho author’s script, based on a series of real-life tragedies, fails the true-crime research standard

September 2020

  • Master of detail … Karl Ove Knausgaard.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books of autofiction

    From Karl Ove Knausgård to Marguerite Duras, the French author Nina Bouraoui celebrates the writers whose stories are told without invention

July 2020

  • Tabloid tales … Irvine Welsh (left) and Bret Easton Ellis.

    Bret Easton Ellis and Irvine Welsh in talks to co-write TV drama

    American Psycho and Trainspotting authors set to collaborate for the first time on show about a manipulative American tabloid

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

March 2020

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    Lockdown culture
    Shelf isolation: stylish reads to keep your spirits up

    From the escapism of F Scott Fitzgerald to the story of the woman who edited Vogue in the Blitz, the Guardian fashion team suggest style-focused books to distract and inspire

January 2020

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    Books that made me
    Isabel Allende: ‘The Female Eunuch confirmed I was not crazy’

    The novelist on reading fairy tales as a child and the influence of Gabriel García Márquez

September 2019

  • Margaret Atwood.

    Books blog
    The Testaments, 34 years in the making: the longest gaps between sequels

    The three decades between The Handmaid’s Tale and Margaret Atwood’s much anticipated follow-up makes the wait for George RR Martin’s The Winds of Winter seem brief

May 2019

  • Ben Gerrard as Patrick Bateman in Hayes Theatre Co’s production of American Psycho the Musical.

    American Psycho the Musical review – slick, sexy and highly disturbing

    A murderous romp that will have you snort laughing before it punches you in the gut
  • Bret Easton Ellis photographed in London.

    The Guardian Books podcast
    'You can't sustain a career on shocking people': is Bret Easton Ellis genuine? – books podcast

    The American Psycho author talks about the reactions to his first book in 10 years, and we discuss the UK’s new poet laureate, Simon Armitage
  • Christian Bale in American Psycho (2000).

    Would American Psycho be published today? How shocking books have changed with their readers

    Do disturbing novels reflect an extreme reality or are they just titillation? Hanya Yanagihara, Leïla Slimani and others on why they set out to shock us

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’

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    Steven Poole's word of the week
    'Let's cancel Bret Easton Ellis': is millennial 'cancel culture' really a thing?

  • Bret Easton Ellis at the America Festival in Vincennes, France - 28 Sep 2010<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sipa/REX/Shutterstock (1228958f) Bret Easton Ellis Bret Easton Ellis at the America Festival in Vincennes, France - 28 Sep 2010

    Book of the day
    White by Bret Easton Ellis review – sound, fury and insignificance

March 2019

  • Malcolm McDowell as Alex in 1971’s A Clockwork Orange

    Top 10s
    Top 10 evil narrators

    Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, American Psycho ... many of these books were originally condemned as immoral for humanising the evil at their heart
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