We are all Tom Ripley
In our culture of fraud and corruption, Patricia Highsmith’s anti-hero is just another con man.
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Ryan Ruby
Ryan Ruby is the author of The Zero and the One: A Novel. His criticism has appeared in the New York Times, the Nation, the New Left Review and elsewhere. He lives in Berlin.
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