Emma Cline, author of the New York Times bestselling "The Girls" (about the Manson Family murders), returns with a smoldering thriller about a young escort's search for a new sugar daddy. In "The ...

Emma Cline’s second novel "The Guest" is the spiritual opposite of a beach read. It’s more like a "what if everything that could go wrong, did go wrong, while on vacation" novel. Cline laughs over the ...

Emma Cline, author of the atmospheric and overhyped Manson-cult novel “The Girls” (2016), has returned with a sleeker study of seduction and delusion titled “The Guest.” Its heroine is Alex, a 22-year ...

The new novel "The Guest" unfolds against a backdrop of wealth. It is high summer. We're in the Hamptons on Long Island. Everyone is rich. Everyone is attractive. The champagne is iced. The beaches ...

They say not to use high beams in fog. The water vapor refracts the intense glare of headlights back toward the driver in a way that actually decreases visibility. Best, then, to use low light. This ...

At a panel discussion for the New Yorker Festival featuring Emma Cline, Mary Gaitskill, and moderator Molly Fisher, Cline said John Cheever’s much-anthologized short story “The Swimmer,” which first ...

In Emma Cline's "The Guest," 22-year-old Alex lies, trespasses, manipulates and steals over the course of a summer week in a wealthy oceanside enclave. Originally the guest of Simon — a man more than ...

I can spot it a mile away out here,” says Vivian, who has spent her summers in the Hamptons for decades. “I noticed the grift when I was a kid working in Westhampton. These kids come in from the city, ...

Much like her 22-year-old protagonist, Alex, Emma Cline approaches her Hamptons-based psychodrama like an anthropologist studying coastal elites. When we meet Alex, she is in dire straits, but plays ...