THIRTY-SIX Patricia Highsmith-related items all appearing in the Times Literary Supplement (London). Four exceptions in other reviews are duly noted. All oversize and in very good condition:

They include:

22 March 1974. Highsmith's Ripley's Game, published by Heinemann, is anonymously reviewed (and panned) in this issue of the weekly. The novel, the third (of 5) in the "Ripley" novel series by Highsmith, went on to become one of her better sellers. It was much later made into two different feature films. 

18 June 1976. Highsmith's notable review, headed "A Galahad in L.A." of Frank MacShane's The Life of Raymond Chandler. See photo #4.

9 July 1976. "The Trouble with Sir Harry." Highsmith here reviews Marshall Houts' Who Killed Sir Harry Oakes? "The question that this title asks," Highsmith begins, "has never been answered. Therein lies much of the fascination..." 

8 October 1976. Headed "Baker Street, USA," Highsmith here pens an essay in review of the Hugh Greene-edited (published by Bodley Head) The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes. 

Xmas Eve, 1976. Highsmith here reviews neglected American crime writer John Franklin Bardin's collection of novels (Omnibus).  

20 May 1977. Highsmith's Edith's Diary is reviewed by Emma Tenant. "With Edith's Diary Patricia Highsmith has produced a masterpiece." 

20 January 1978. Peter Conrad here offers an extended (full page) essay in review of the Highsmith-introduced The World of Raymond Chandler and of Chandler's Notebooks and English Summer: A Gothic Romance. 

25 April 1980. Craig Brown reviews Highsmith's new novel, The Boy Who Followed Ripley. It's headed "Perspectives of Guilt." 

2 October 1981. Thomas Sutcliffe pens a review of Highsmith's new book, The Black House, published by Heinemann

24 September 1982. Highsmith here pens a review essay, headed "Of Carriers and Kings" following upon the publication of Dutch writer and ethologist (observer of animal behaviour) Martin Hart's new volume, Rats, here translated by Arnold Pomerans. It includes an illustration from the book. Highsmith calls it "a fascinating study." Her review is noted on the cover of this issue: "Patricia Highsmith on rats."  

6 September 1985. Highsmith reviews Muriel Gardiner's The Deadly Innocents: Portraits of Children that Kill. 

27 September 1985. Craig Brown reviews Highsmith's collection of stories, Mermaids on the Golf Course and Other Stories. 

31 January 1986. Longer essay by Highsmith on Jonathan Coleman's At Mother's Request: A True Story of Money, Murder, and Betrayal. 

18 April 1986. Sean French reviews Highsmith's new novel, set in Greenwich Village, Found in the Street. 

16 June 1987. Highsmith here reviews the Nuel Emmons-edited Without Conscience: Charles Manson in His Own Words (with a 1982 photo of Charlie). 

6-12 November 1987. Headed "Richly Perverse," John Melmoth pens a review of Highsmith's new collection of stories, Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes. 

25-31 December 1987. Highsmith here pens a Christmas essay called "Ripping Time" in review of five new volumes related to everybody's all-around favorite, Jack the Ripper. 

9-15 September 1988. Highsmith contributes an essay, "Living and Dying in a Vacuum" in review of Clifford Irving's Daddy's Girl: The Campbell Murder Case.  

6 December 1991. I detect a hint of cynicism in Highsmith's report to the weekly in their "International Books of the Year" feature. But, I may be wrong. She here details an "unforgettable" new volume by author Peter Blauner, Slow Motion Riot, published by Viking. 

16 April 1993. "From Fridge to Cooler: Exploring the Psychology of a Serial Killer." Highsmith here reviews two new works on the life and crimes of Milwaukee serial murderer and cannibal, Jeffrey Dahmer: Brian Masters' The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer and Joel Norris' Jeffrey Dahmer. The maniac Dahmer would be murdered by a fellow inmate in a Wisconsin prison in 1994. 

22 April 1994. Highsmith here offers a longer (full oversize page and 1/4) essay called "Child's Play 4?" in review of David James Smith's The Sleep of Reason: The Killing of James Bulger. The case is featured on the cover of this issue. See photo #8. 

1 July 1994. Highsmith here takes over the back page of this TLS issue to review a new book about the family of the notorious American murderer Gary Gilmore, written by Gilmore's brother, Mikal. His book is called Shot in the Heart. See photo #9.  

2 December 1994. One of Highsmith's last appearances on the literary scene, this is her contribution to the "International Books of the Year" issue of the weekly, here waxing enthusiastic in her commentary about "the both famous and ignored" work of Palestinian born critic and teacher, long resident in America, Edward W. Said. See photo #10. 

24 February 1995. James Campbell devotes the back page of the TLS to a review of Highsmith's last novel, appearing here just 20 days after her death. It's called "Criminal Negligence" in review of Highsmith's Small g: A Summer Idyll, a volume not published in America for another 10 years. See photo #7. 

"The Talented Miss Highsmith." This is an extended essay by Neil Gordon on the life and works of Highsmith. More than two full oversize pages. In the Threepenny Review (Berkeley), Summer 2000. Hard to find issue also offers poems by Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, etc. 40 page number,  

15 November 2001. This is a complete issue of the New York Review of Books (see photos #11 & #12). The able Joyce Carol Oates here pens an essay ( 2 1/2 full oversize pages) in review of the Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith (with an undated introduction by Graham Greene) and of Highsmith's A Suspension of Mercy, both published by Norton.  

12 September 2003. This number offers a longer important essay (noted on the cover of the issue: "Venom for Patricia Highsmith") by Sarah Churchwell in review of Andrew Wilson's Beautiful Shadow--A Life of Patricia Highsmith and of Marijane Meaker's Highsmith--A Romance of the 1950s.  

9 December 2005. Sean O'Brien here pens a full oversize page in review of Highsmith's Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories, published by Norton in America and Bloomsbury in England. 

1 March 2013. James Campbell here offers some of his back page columns to a British Library "Murder in the Library: An A-Z of Crime Fiction" exhibit with some memorable lines about "our favorite crime writer ("P is for Patricia Highsmith"). Did you realize that her Tom Ripley ("V if for Villain") would today be 89 years old? The cover of The Talented Mr. Ripley (1954) is here reproduced. 

29 May 2015. This is a longer (more than a full column) letter from writer and critic John Sutherland on the topic of the five volume "Ripiad" of Highsmith's works detailing the total number of Ripley's murders in the group and speculation as to of just what his proper age is. This is an item of some interest for Ripley fans.    

22 January 2021. "A Singular Traveller." Journalist Alex Clark here pens a full page (oversize) essay on "Patricia Highsmith at 100." 

17 September 2021. Daphne Wright offers a review of Richard Bradford's Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith. Here's a taste: "Highsmith was promiscuous, racist, misanthropic, offensive, alcoholic, and repeatedly destructive of other people and any relationship that promised stability or happiness."  

4 November 2021. This issue of the New York Review of Books features an extended, illustrated, first-rate essay/review by Frances Wilson of the Anna von Planta edited Patricia Highsmith: The Diaries and Notebooks, 1941-1995, and of Richard Bradford's Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith. Of the latter, she says: "Bradford's life is based on hate alone," among other defects in the volume that she finds, with much justification I'd say, most distressing in a biographer.   

19 November 2021. Natasha Cooper's longer essay "A Womb of My Own" in review of the Anna Von Planta-edited Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks, 1941-1995. 

21 April 2023. Alex Clark reviews the new documentary film (2022) of Highsmith's Life, Loving Highsmith. 

AND

The Chicago Tribune, "A & E" Section, for 28 April 2024. John Warner pens an essay headed "Netflix's 'Ripley' Does Justice to Patricia Highsmith's Book." This announcing the details of the 8-episode series "Ripley," with Andrew Scott in the title role. About half of a full oversize page. See photo #13.   


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