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...There ought to be a spike in sales of Robert Harris’s historical novel Pompeii after stern historian Francesca’s five-star review, as she leads Grant through the ancient Roman water-tunnels that feature...
...In this essay, Andrew Wilson, author of books on Patricia Highsmith and Sylvia Plath, explores biographies’ value. (Boundless) I love Prince....
...In the work of Robert Louis Stevenson and Oscar Wilde, as in the earlier Romantic writing of Shelley and ETA Hoffmann, the double is a manifestation of something repressed, unrecognised, or unexplored....
...Craig Warner’s play Strangers on a Train is officially “based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith”, but it nods also to the Alfred Hitchcock film version (scripted by Raymond Chandler), and effectively –...
...It can be a dizzying process for the actors, who in American Hustle include Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro....
...The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. Who is your perfect reader? Someone who has read everything I’ve written. What’s your favourite word? Impeachment. When were you happiest?...
...The prevalent morality makes Robert Maxwell look like St Francis of Assisi.One outraged observer compares the bosses’ behaviour with thecaptain of the Titanic sailing off in the lifeboat with a few cohorts...
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