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ReviewJun 28, 2026

Nothing Matters, Except Maybe Murder

Everything, objects and people alike, dissolves in repetition, and his work makes little mark. Violence is the sole exception, indelible and irreversible. The film deviates here, with the murders far less certain. The ambiguity might seem a total repudiation…

@literatiAmerican Psycho: A Novel

ListMay 15, 2026

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@greyskiesThe Informers

ListFeb 12, 2026

Books I Read as a Teenager

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@aimeebalthazarAmerican Psycho: A Novel

ReviewMay 21, 2025

Pepys for creeps

American Psycho gets five stars from me purely for Pat Bateman's critical exegeses of Genesis, Whitney Houston and Huey Lewis, each one somehow even more exquisite than the one before. They're pop-cultural shitposting at its finest, and to me funnier and mayb…

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