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Patricia Highsmith is having a moment. Read The Talented Mr. Ripley before A Talent for Murder opens Oct 23, with Carol as a bonus, plus M. John Harrison's Booker contender The End of Everything. Purchase Bleecker movie tickets here.

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Black-and-cream halftone comic-dot portrait of Patricia Highsmith around 1962, smiling with her hand to her mouth
Patricia Highsmith, c. 1962. Publicity photo, Harper & Brothers, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain). Edited by Book & Shores.
Black and yellow halftone comic-dot portrait of Patricia Highsmith seated on the TV program After Dark in 1988
Patricia Highsmith on After Dark, 1988. Photo © Open Media Ltd, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and edited by Book & Shores.
Admit One A TALENT FOR MURDER Helen Mirren as Patricia Highsmith Dir. Anton Corbijn
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The 2026 Booker Shortlist

Six novels, one prize, and the winner is named November 9. Two past winners, a three-time nominee, and three first-timers.

The End of Everything by M. John Harrison The Disappearers by Marlon James Black Bag by Luke Kennard May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout John of John by Douglas Stuart
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Jonathan Lethem

Brooklyn detectives, talking kangaroos, and a new essay on lost books finding new readers. Where to start, and what to read next.

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem Office Politics by Wilfrid Sheed
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