How Do You Solve a Problem Like Marias? THE MAN OF FEELING By Javier Marias New Directions, 182 pp., $22.95 While everyone's busy making a fuss about figments of the media imagination named "Stephen Glass" and "Jayson Blair," a true...

What greater pleasure is there in life, really, what more supreme happiness, than a solitary Metroliner ride from New York to D.C.? Three hours of silence and comfort; three hours to read the paper front to back; three hours to visit the dining car,...

Torment in the U.S. and Frenzy in the U.K.), was destined to become one of the dominant international auteurs of the second half of the 20th century, I would have said, “Huh?” And now, even more amazingly, if this same perceptive prophet had told me...

If anyone had ever told me back in 1944 that a 26-year-old Swedish screenwriter named Ingmar Bergman, who had just written his first screenplay (for Alf Sjoberg's Hets- Torment in the U.S. and Frenzy in the U.K.), was destined to become one of the dominant...

In the following essay, Mahoney provides a comparative study of Highsmith's novel Strangers on a Train and Alfred Hitchcock's film adaptation of the work, concluding that "the two works are substantially different in focus and direction."

Mawr is an American educator and critic who has written works on Romantic poetry. In the following essay, she discusses the development of the character Tom Ripley in Highsmith's Ripley novels, stating that the series shows Ripley's "progression from a villain to a vigilante as the world becomes even too evil for his taste."