'I can't even look at the cover': the most disturbing books
From hiding from a copy of The Exorcist to being unnerved by the likes of Shirley Jackson, Stephen King and Iain Banks, here are your most alarming reading experiencesLast week we asked you to share...
View ArticleThe dark brilliance of Bret Easton Ellis, by Ottessa Moshfegh
The satirical horror of Ellis’s debut Less Than Zerogives the novel its seductive forceTaB was introduced in 1963 as Coca-Cola’s first diet drink. It used zero-calorie saccharin instead of sugar, an...
View ArticleTop 10 evil narrators
Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, American Psycho ... many of these books were originally condemned as immoral for humanising the evil at their heartAll novelists are villains. Like despots, we fantasise...
View ArticleWhite by Bret Easton Ellis review – sound, fury and insignificance
Bitter rants and petty score settling drive this attack on political correctness in the Twitter ageFor reasons clear only to himself, Bret Easton Ellis opens his new book with an image of himself...
View Article'Let's cancel Bret Easton Ellis': is millennial 'cancel culture' really a thing?
The author annoyed young people this week by criticising the practice of withdrawing admiration for offending celebritiesThe novelist Bret Easton Ellis annoyed young people in an interview this week....
View ArticleBret Easton Ellis: ‘My ability to trigger millennials is insane’
The former enfant terrible of 80s literature is now a self-appointed scourge of victimhood and outrage. He talks about his first book for a decadePoor Bret Easton Ellis. For someone I imagine to be...
View ArticleBret Easton Ellis is part dinosaur, part sage. I’m intrigued | Suzanne Moore
He says the reaction to Trump is worse than Trump himself. He refuses to toe the liberal line on race and gender. Where do we position such a writer?If Patrick Bateman, the serial killer at the heart...
View ArticleWould American Psycho be published today? How shocking books have changed...
Do disturbing novels reflect an extreme reality or are they just titillation? Hanya Yanagihara, Leïla Slimani and others on why they set out to shock usBret Easton Ellis received 13 death threats...
View Article'You can't sustain a career on shocking people': is Bret Easton Ellis...
On this week’s show, the American Psycho author meets Alex Needham, the Guardian’s arts editor, to discuss the controversy about White, a collection of essays and his first book in 10 years. Ellis...
View ArticleAmerican Psycho the Musical review – slick, sexy and highly disturbing |...
Hayes Theatre Co, SydneyA murderous romp that will have you snort laughing before it punches you in the gutStaging a play about a man who murders dozens of women is a bold choice in this post-MeToo...
View ArticleThe Testaments, 34 years in the making: the longest gaps between sequels
The three decades between The Handmaid’s Tale and Margaret Atwood’s much anticipated follow-up makes the wait for George RR Martin’s The Winds of Winter seem briefThose lucky enough to get an advance...
View ArticleIsabel Allende: ‘The Female Eunuch confirmed I was not crazy’
The novelist on reading fairy tales as a child and the influence of Gabriel García MárquezThe book I am currently readingI am reading Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House and listening to the audio of...
View ArticleShelf isolation: stylish reads to keep your spirits up
From the escapism of F Scott Fitzgerald to the story of the woman who edited Vogue in the Blitz, the Guardian fashion team suggest style-focused books to distract and inspire “It is the present we must...
View ArticleAmerican Psycho at 20: a vicious satire that remains as sharp as ever
Mary Harron’s divisive adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel is a shrewd articulation of the source, with a star-making turn from Christian BaleThree years after the Bret Easton Ellis novel American...
View ArticleBret Easton Ellis and Irvine Welsh in talks to co-write TV drama
American Psycho and Trainspotting authors set to collaborate for the first time on show about a manipulative American tabloid Bret Easton Ellis dreamed up the depraved excesses of serial killer Patrick...
View ArticleTop 10 books of autofiction | Nina Bouraoui
From Karl Ove Knausgård to Marguerite Duras, the French author Nina Bouraoui celebrates the writers whose stories are told without inventionAn autofiction is a work of truth; the author is not hiding...
View ArticleSmiley Face Killers review – a blunt blade from Bret Easton Ellis
The American Psycho author’s script, based on a series of real-life tragedies, fails the true-crime research standardThe patchy cinematic record of novelist-turned-screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis...
View ArticleThe Shards by Bret Easton Ellis review – a triumphant return to form
Ellis’s first novel in 13 years brilliantly fictionalises the secrets and desires of his high school years and the birth of his dark literary personaEach episode of Bret Easton Ellis’s long-running...
View ArticleThe Shards by Bret Easton Ellis review – an inspired fever dream of a book
A teenage Bret and his uber-privileged friends cruise around 80s LA while a serial killer stalks the city in a gleefully meta return to form by the author of American PsychoThe shocks come fast in Bret...
View ArticleBret Easton Ellis: ‘James and the Giant Peach changed my life’
The provocative novelist on looking back at his teenage self, the sales generated by a hostile Q&A and his obsession with Marilyn MonroeBret Easton Ellis, 58, is the author of nine books, most...
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