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Patricia Highsmith

June 2024

  • Atrani, Amalfi Coast

    Audiobook of the week
    The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith audiobook review – a compelling classic

    Actor David Menkin deftly captures the antihero’s blend of guilelessness and deceit in Patricia Highsmith’s psychological thriller

April 2024

  • Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley in the Netflix series.

    The Guardian view on Bridget Jones and Tom Ripley: characters that speak across time

  • Old buildings on the coast overlook the sea and a beach filled with sunloungers

    ‘This coast is saturated’: Italian village braces for post-Ripley crowds

  • Expertly mined human treachery … Patricia Highsmith.

    Where to start with
    Where to start with: Patricia Highsmith

  • Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley.

    What's On newsletter
    ‘Unfurling tension and menace’: how slow TV like Ripley makes for a truly gripping watch

  • Best of frenemies: why Tom Ripley is a psychopath made for social media

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Observer TV reviews
    The week in television: Ripley; This Town; The Assembly; Mammals – review

  • Five of the best
    Five of the best psychological thrillers by women

April 2023

  • Patricia Highsmith.

    Loving Highsmith review – a thorough profile of the Ripley author, one issue aside…

  • Droningly reverent … Loving Highsmith.

    Loving Highsmith review – Ripley author tribute soft-pedals writer’s nasty side

January 2023

  • A composite image of Cate Blanchett and Viola Davis

    Down the rabbit hole
    What links Cate Blanchett’s new film Tár to Sissy Spacek and hot sauce?

  • Carol, Small Things Like These and Ulysses

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in December

December 2022

  • Sparks fly … Therese Belivet’s (Rooney Mara) store clerk meets Carol (Cate Blanchett) for the first time.

    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

March 2022

  • Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett in the 2006 film of Notes on a Scandal.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels about toxic friendships

  • Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas in Deep Water.

    Deep Water review – erotic thriller loves Ben Affleck’s slack-jawed look

February 2022

  • Olivia Laing … ‘I was seduced by Beatrix Potter’s The Tailor of Gloucester.’

    The books of my life
    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

November 2021

  • Patricia Highsmith At Home In France<br>Portrait of American novelist and short story writer Patricia Highsmith (1921 - 1995) as she sits in the living room of her home, in the village of Montcourt-Fromonville, France, 1976. She lived in the house between 1971 and 1983. (Photo by Derek Hudson/Getty Images)

    Observer book of the week
    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
  • Patricia Highsmith … the bravado of her early years curdled into hostility.

    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
  • Patricia Highsmith at home in France

    ‘Avoid sadists!’: Patricia Highsmith on sex, women and writing Mr Ripley

    An extract from the author’s fascinating diaries reveals her innermost thoughts and feelings

May 2021

  • Two snails racing

    The joy of small things
    A half-shaven head? A handbag of snails at a cocktail party? I just adore a true eccentric

    There is probably something in the idea that quirkiness or slightly odd behaviour might have a link with mental illness, neurodiversity or creative skill
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