Tom Ripley's Empty Intelligence
Why the "Ripley" TV series evokes the novels all too well — with a nod to Charles Baxter's "Wonderlands" and (yes) ChatGPT
About a year and a half ago, I read three of Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley novels, and I didn’t like them. Yet I felt compelled to finish them. They taught me a lot about propulsive narrative and how disturbing it is to spend time in a serial…
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