The Latest Breaking News from Bret Easton Ellis

Thirty years ago, living in Cambridge, England, I wandered into Heffers Bookshop and picked up a monstrous new novel on the display table. It had a title out of Hamlet, a Simpsons-sky dustjacket, hundreds of endnotes, and ran to almost 1,100 pages. Infinite Jest occupied much of that cold February…

IN FOCUS: As debates over the ‘disappearing’ young male novelist rumble on, some authors and critics push back against claims that fiction has closed its doors to men. Hannah Ewens learns that the real problem is less about publishing and more about a wider societal issue

From one TV powerhouse to another.

After rumours suggested Margot Robbie could star as a female Patrick Bateman in Luca Guadagnino’s American Psycho, it has been reported the film will not be gender-swapped.