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Books

Burden Of Proofs: The Return Of Our Crime Fiction Column

In the second edition of our crime fiction column, Angus Batey reviews new books from John Barlow, James Lee Burke, Nickolas Butler, James Ellroy, Paula Hawkins, and others, while Enrico Monacelli tackles Joseph Knox's latest and the new unfinished book in podcast form from Bret Easton Ellis
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Ruin Your Books: On The Warmth Of A Dog-Eared Paperback

Is your library a temple or a memory palace? Helen Rowland argues there is no shame in shelves full of dog-eared, annotated, tea stained tomes
Film

Chest Always So Puffed Guy: American Psycho At 20

The story written by Bret Easton Ellis had its own thoughts on toxic masculinity, but it was only with Mary Harron's 2000 film that the weight of American Psycho really found its truth, writes Marianne Eloise
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The Whitey Album: Bret Easton Ellis Runs Out Of Steam

What do you do when your best work is all over thirty years old? Well, if you're Bret Easton Ellis, you write a book of essays devoted to whining about "millennials"…
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Some Kind Of Abstraction: Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho 25 Years On

25 years after Bret Easton Ellis' notorious novel was first published, Lee Arizuno considers its place in literature and, as both mirror and projector, in the culture of its time and ours

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Doors Of Appropriation: Teju Cole Interviewed

Nathalie Olah speaks to one of contemporary literature's most impressive polymaths - novelist, non-fiction writer, photographer, cultural commentator and art historian Teju Cole - about the pros and cons of cultural appropriation, being a writer in the social media age and the otherworldliness of birds. (Photograph by Teju Cole)
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All Of Creation Just Winks Out: Chuck Palahniuk Interviewed

Novelist and l'enfant terrible of the American short story Chuck Palahniuk speaks to Kevin Perry about blackmailing for material, betraying the default cynicism of his generation and facing up to fear of death
Film

“To Be Dissed By Bret Easton Ellis Is Delightful” – Whit Stillman Interviewed

Stephen Dalton chats to US cinema's premier chronicler of the Urban Haute Bourgeoisie, returning after 14 years. Photo by Kerry Brown
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Tao Lin’s Shoplifting From American Apparel Reviewed

Huw Nesbitt finds Tao Lin's new novel as slick and vapid as a pair of shiny leggings from the young girl-loving fashion retailer
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The Books I’ve Loved: Christiana Spens

Novelist Christiana Spens talks to The Quietus about her favorite yarns

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