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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Ottessa moshfegh | History Defined

11 Books About Forbidden Love to Read If You're Spending Valentine's Day Yearning

In these classics and contemporary, complex romances, the heart wants what the heart wants.

Marie Claire

Men aren’t vanishing from fiction. The truth is more complicated

IN FOCUS: As debates over the ‘disappearing’ young male novelist rumble on, some authors and critics push back against claims that fiction has closed its doors to men. Hannah Ewens learns that the real problem is less about publishing and more about a wider societal issue

The Independent UK

Authority: Essays on Being Right by Andrea Long Chu review – scorching hot takes

The Pulitzer-winning critic has some choice words for the likes of Zadie Smith, Hanya Yanagihara and Bret Easton Ellis

The Guardian - UK

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Paradise Logic by Sophie Kemp review – a TikTok Stepford Wives for the Pornhub era

This startling debut follows a young woman on a surreal and bluntly graphic quest to be the perfect girlfriend

The Guardian - UK

Nicola Dinan: ‘Ottessa Moshfegh helped me find my voice’

The author on the short stories that taught her about grief, being inspired by Jennifer Egan, and rereading James Baldwin

The Guardian - UK

The man behind Meghan Markle’s anti-stress patch

The Duchess of Sussex was spotted last year with a blue sticker on her wrist. Will Hosie talks to the man who sold it to her

Evening Standard

Entitlement by Rumaan Alam review – the American dream gone wrong

A woman is beguiled by wealth while her billionaire employer aims to give his fortune away, in a propulsive exploration of money and race

The Guardian - UK

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Five of the best psychological thrillers by women

These electrifying novels that dig into the peculiar, dark depths of the human psyche will have you questioning who to trust

The Guardian - UK

Where to start with: Ottessa Moshfegh

The American novelist has created an oeuvre of medieval gross-fests, 60s psychological thrillers and hallucinatory evocations over five novels and one short story collection

The Guardian - UK

2023's Most Mysterious Thriller Is One of the Best Noir Movies of the Decade

Anne Hathaway seduces Thomasin McKenzie in a noir that sweeps you up in its twisted delusions. Read our review of 'Eileen.'

Inverse

Eileen review: Anne Hathaway seduces and beguiles her way through a twisty thriller

Thomasin McKenzie co-stars in this ice-cold noir in which two mysterious women let their lust draw them towards disturbing fates

The Independent UK

Eileen movie review: desire runs riot in this Ottessa Moshfegh adaptation

Eileen is the drabbest of them all... until glamourous new prison psychiatrist Rebecca comes swanning into town, that is

Evening Standard

Eileen review – Anne Hathaway is vehement in solemnly intense psycho-noir

Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel becomes a disappointing movie, unable to decide if it’s a thriller or a dark comedy, though Thomasin McKenzie and Hathaway give it their all

The Guardian - UK

Movie Review: 'Eileen,' a wonderful novel about an 'invisible' young lady becomes a oddball film

Something strange has happened to Eileen Dunlop, and we don’t just mean the plot of “Eileen.”

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Authors Ottessa Moshfegh and Luke Goebel on movies and their marriage: ‘Are people titillated by unlikeable women?’

The author behind ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’ and ‘Lapvona’ has collaborated with her husband on a film adaptation of her celebrated debut novel ‘Eileen’. As it hits cinemas, with Anne Hathaway in the role of a mysterious femme fatale, the pair speak to Annabel Nugent

The Guardian - UK

Ottessa Moshfegh: ‘Everyone asked me why I had written such a disgusting female character’

Before My Year of Rest and Relaxation, the author published Eileen, a dark noir about another disaffected woman. As it comes to the screen, she looks back on the extreme reaction to her complex heroine

The Conversation

I've had enough of Sad Bad Girl novels and sensationalised trauma – but I'm hungry for complex stories about women

Stories about flawed young women have been favoured by the publishing industry for some time now. Bad Girl novels proliferated in the wake of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, while Sad Girl novels have evolved from the comic haplessness of Bridget Jones in the 1990s, to more…

The Guardian - UK

Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke review – an upper-class monster

A timely reissue for this gem from the archives, in which an ex-public schoolboy makes a gruesome fall from grace

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Sarah Bernstein Breaks the Rules in Study for Obedience

The unnerving novel that earned two major prize nominations rattles expectations of how stories are often told

The Guardian - AU

Sad Girl Novel author Pip Finkemeyer on critiquing sad girl novels: ‘It has to have a heart’

The Melbourne author’s debut tackles the books industry and the rise of a now-ubiquitous genre – staying one step ahead of the reader along the way

The Guardian - UK

Ottessa Moshfegh: ‘I’m not brainstorming ways to freak people out’

The acclaimed author on her post-Covid novel Lapvona, the influence of Ingmar Bergman and the Brothers Grimm, and the draw of England in the 90s for her next book

Evening Standard

Best Galentine’s Day gifts to celebrate your pals

Because they’re worth it

The Independent UK

Philip Roth tribute to be held in his native New Jersey

Authors Ottessa Moshfegh and Susan Choi and actors John Turturro and Mary-Louise Parker will be among dozens of featured guests at a Philip Roth tribute taking place mid-March in the late novelist’s hometown of Newark, New Jersey

The Guardian - UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in November

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

Los Angeles Times

'Causeway's' Lila Neugebauer on directing Jennifer Lawrence and the joy of Elaine May

The new film "Causeway," in theaters and streaming on Apple TV+, centers on two remarkably low-key but nevertheless riveting performances by Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry. The film is the first produced by Lawrence and is also the debut feature for director Lila Neugebauer.

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