Pop culture's obsession with Tom Ripley

An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley novels has hit Netflix and, thus, headlines.

But it's not the first time that this fraudster has made his way to the screen — far from it.

Both NPR and The New York Times took a look, recently, at why Hollywood can't stop adapting this nearly seventy-year-old novel (and why audiences can't stop watching said adaptations).

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