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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 ....
Nothing Special, by Nicole Flattery. Bloomsbury, 2023. 240 pages.A BRIGHT AND TROUBLED INGENUE has made it to New York City. What now? Nicole Flattery’s debut novel the Irish writer’s first book was a short-story collection, Show Them a Good Time (2019) is artfully withholding at the levels of period language and the particularities of its setting. But its protagonist, Mae, who is seventeen in 1967, arrives with obvious narrative precursors: the Joan Didion of “Goodbye to All That;” Sylvia Plath’s stand-in, Esther Greenwood, in The Bell Jar; Therese Belivet in Patricia Highsmith’s Carol (née ....
Todd Haynes adaptation of Patricia Highsmith s 1952 lesbian love story, Carol , is a sumptuous visual treat, but the novel s emotional content has been softened and simplified. ....
A parish council has got a little hot under the collar after “salacious adult literature” was left in a village’s library box. Hurstbourne Tarrant Parish Council asked literary lovers to stop trying to spread their passion for “inappropriate” books by leaving them in the converted telephone kiosk, which sits next to a playground and Hurstbourne Tarrant Church of England Primary School. It raised concerns children may get access to these books. The council said: “We love our red phone box library on Church Street . but we don t love salacious adult literature being left in there. “So if whoever is doing so is reading this, please don t keep leaving inappropriate books - the majority of visitors to the phone box are children. And some of them are tall enough to reach the shelves where the books for grown-ups are. ....