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The Latest Breaking News from Patricia Highsmith

Our weekend arts and culture picks, from Renfield to Hamnet

A collection of cultural highlights for the coming weekend

The Independent UK

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

Ostensibly about the relationships of the celebrated novelist, this documentary is coy about Patricia Highsmith’s obsessiveness and antisemitism

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 criminal duos in fiction

Authors from James M Cain to Patricia Highsmith show how partners in crime can really bring out the worst in each other

The Guardian - UK

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Worst movie made from a good book? Or what’s the best movie adapted from a lousy novel?

Adapting a book to the screen, successfully: If a reliable formula for that creative challenge existed, we wouldn’t have “The Bonfire of the Vanities” or “The Lovely Bones” or “The Great Gatsby” (any of ‘em) to kick around anymore.

Chicago Tribune

Ronald Blythe obituary

Nature writer whose 1969 book Akenfield, a portrait of a rural life rapidly disappearing from view, was acclaimed as a classic

The Guardian - UK

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

A composer and conductor opens the door to Loretta Lynn, Wings of Desire and classic 90s rock from Goo Goo Dolls

The Guardian - UK

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

Critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

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Marijane Meaker obituary

Groundbreaking author, initially of lesbian-themed fiction including the 1952 bestseller Spring Fire

The Guardian - UK

Phyllis Nagy: ‘Knowing Patricia Highsmith changed my thinking about how a female writer could live’

The American director and screenwriter on her new film about abortion activists in the 60s, Roe v Wade being overturned, and her ideal next Bond

The Guardian - UK

Movie review: ‘Loving Highsmith’ takes deep dive into woman behind the psychological thrillers

The author of the celebrated lesbian novel adapted in the 2015 film “Carol” and the creator of the sociopathic serial killer and frequent film character Tom Ripley, Texas-born Patricia Highsmith is now the subject of the fine documentary “Loving Highsmith.”

Boston Herald

Missing Pages: the podcast revisiting jaw-dropping literary scandals

From the case of Dan Mallory to the story of Kaavya Viswanathan, literary critic Bethanne Patrick looks back on some of the strangest book scandals ever

The Guardian - US

The joy of crime fiction: authors from Lee Child to Paula Hawkins pick their favourite books

Val McDermid, Nicci French, Anthony Horowitz and more reveal what makes a great novel, celebrating writers including Patricia Highsmith, Donna Tartt and Dennis Lehane

The Guardian - UK

Croatian-filmmaker's 'Murina' sets tension in sunny paradise

Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović's debut feature “Murina,” about a 17-year-old girl with a domineering father living in a sun-soaked paradise on the Adriatic, has been likened to a Patricia Highsmith thriller

The Independent UK

‘I would never just direct a cute story’: Murina director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović

Her brilliant first film won a top prize at Cannes – the day after she gave birth. The Croatian filmmaker talks about being a child refugee – and why she wants to do a superhero movie

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Movie review: Erotic thriller 'Deep Water' explores undercurrent of unconventional marriage

Whither the erotic thriller? The genre, so popular in the late '80s and early '90s, is a dying breed in the current Hollywood landscape, so any time one makes it to the screen, it’s a cause for celebration, or at least notice. Especially one directed by Adrian Lyne, the king…

Evening Standard

Deep Water review: Ben Affleck’s erotic thriller will make women wet... themselves

Surely you can’t go wrong with Gillian Flynn’s favourite Patricia Highsmith novel? Sigh... yes, you can

The Independent UK

Deep Water trailer: First footage released of Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas in erotic thriller

Movie based on Patricia Highsmith novel will go straight to streaming in March

Evening Standard

Chloe, BBC One review: Erin Doherty shines in compulsive mystery that plays out like Patricia Highsmith

This tale of Instagram obsession manages to be both emotionally astute and compulsive

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