Sunday, November 15, 2026 Vol. I · No. 3
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‘She was a monster’: the real Patricia Highsmith, by the people who knew her

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A new film starring Helen Mirren explores the Ripley writer’s later years, but was she really so rude and eccentric? Editors and publishers who worked with her look back

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