Patricia Highsmith was an American author who specialized in psychological thrillers and dark character studies. She ...

A reimagining of the life of renowned queer author Patricia Highsmith isn’t a tale of admiration or condemnation, but one about the complex nature of womanhood. Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer ...

Like Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley (inspiration for Ripley College) or Satan in Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” Anna is a heinous devil who may shock and offend, but never bores. In a ...

Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde had a jolly good time, Patricia Highsmith got drunk, but James Baldwin was left feeling isolated and alone, Martin McGuigan on Fire Island's ambiguous queer utopia Cay ...

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By Dwight Garner “It’s funny how one always wants to play their favorite records for friends, and they never listen properly, never understand them,” Patricia Highsmith wrote in her diary in ...

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