She finds the Tom Ripley crime-novel series from Patricia Highsmith endlessly fascinating ... There are so few takers for the “beach cowboy” aesthetic in my current circle, and it actually ...

Literary critic Terry Castle says most people know Patricia Highsmith's writing through screen adaptations, but her original stories are even more chilling and compelling. "The main characters do ...

In June 1952 – two years before she started to write The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia ... he had with Highsmith after they attended an all-night party on the beach of the Italian fishing ...

The punishment for those who love Patricia Highsmith’s best novels is that ... A boy wandering along a beach looking lonely and introspective. “Rather shy and a little homosexual, in my ...

Nearly five years ago, Andrew Scott signed on to star in Ripley, a limited series adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s The ... have an ice cream on some Irish beach. That’s the next thing ...

I had heard, vaguely, that there was a new adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented ... and Marge gleam gloriously on the Italian beach. The jazz club where Tom comes on stage ...

Gwendoline Christie voices Patricia Highsmith’s diary entries and prose ... began as a man she watched walking alone on a beach, looking troubled, very early one morning in Positano, Italy.

Given that a presence as private and enigmatic as famed suspense author — and unwitting queer icon — Patricia Highsmith may not make for the easiest cinematic dissection, the documentary ...

A new documentary makes the case that under her hardened exterior, the novelist Patricia Highsmith was a longing romantic. By Amy Nicholson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

“Writing, of course, is a substitute for the life I cannot live,” Patricia Highsmith wrote in a diary entry from 1950. Were she Jane Austen or a Brontë sister, this might be a romantic statemen ...