“A contemptible piece of pornography”: American Psycho at 25

Twenty-Five years ago, after Simon & Schuster withdrew from the project at the eleventh hour due to “aesthetic differences,” Vintage Books published a gruesome little critique of the most shallow and depraved aspects of 1980s American capitalism, a book which set critics, censors and readers in general aflame and went on to become one of the great cult classics of the modern era: Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho.
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