In July, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” Patricia Highsmith’s classic 1955 thriller about wealth, status, obsession and murder. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is ...

Tom Ripley is a charming sociopath who inspires both love and loathing in The Talented Mr. Ripley, the first of the five-book Ripliad series. Patricia Highsmith’s most notorious character, a nefarious ...

Who doesn’t want to be someone else from time to time? That question is at the heart of author Patricia Highsmith’s most famous character, the aloof Tom Ripley, “a liar, a forger, and an impersonator” ...

The character of Tom Ripley, luxury connoisseur and con man extraordinaire, appeared in five Patricia Highsmith novels, beginning in 1955 with “The Talented Mr. Ripley.” The book is his origin story, ...

Netflix’s new thriller Ripley is a exquisite adaptation of a story many cinephiles already know well: Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley. The 1955 novel sparked a series of books about the ...