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Bret Easton Ellis's ambitious new novel of sex, violence and adolescence in 80s Los Angeles is autofiction for our digital age

Halfway through Bret Easton Ellis’s first novel in 13 years, The Shards, the 17-year-old narrator, Bret (a fictionalised version of the author) pitches to a producer, Terry Schaffer.

The Conversation

Bret 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 Monroe

The Guardian - UK

The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis review: sex, parties and paranoia in this tired return

This flawed novel about rich privileged teens experimenting with drugs in LA does not live up to the potential of the great American novelist

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Bah, humbug: anti-Christmas treats for the tinseled-out

From a beach comedy movie to people-free abstract art, our critics offer cultural escapes for those who’ve already had enough festive spirit

The Guardian - UK

Big books for 2023: Harry’s memoir, Salman Rushdie and more – experts make their predictions

From romance to real life, ‘cli-fi’ and even origami, we look at the 2023 book trends.

The Independent UK

The case for American Psycho: why this controversial book (sold here in shrink wrap) still matters

“I wanted to rub the human face in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.” That’s the novelist J.G. Ballard, explaining why he wrote what is arguably the most important novel of the 1970s, the scandalous Crash.

The Conversation

Friday essay: scary tales for scary times

Progress, the German philosopher Walter Benjamin once wrote, is a storm. The winds that propel us forward also uproot and tear apart what we leave behind. The modern world is a world of progress and it leaves in its wake the ruins of the old world.

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