A Previous Life by Edmund White review – salacious confessions
A couple share their sexual histories in this elegantly filthy report from the frontiers of desire
January 2022
The books of my life
Edmund White: ‘My earliest reading memory is a lady toad with a nasty temper’
The author on discovering Death in Venice, being snobbish about Proust, and the dark side of Waugh
August 2021
Summer in the city
Summer in the city: Edmund White on sex and dancing in 60s New York
The hot summer of 1967 was full of cruising and drinking, sleeping on roofs, and listening to music late into the night
August 2020
A Saint from Texas by Edmund White review – sex and spirituality
Book of the day
A Saint from Texas by Edmund White review – a delicious, salacious romp
October 2019
Further reading
Ultrarunning, prison, surviving Aids ... the best tales of endurance
From Shackleton in the Antarctic to Edmund White on the Aids crisis, Emily Chappell rounds up stories of survival
July 2018
The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading by Edmund White – review
White’s wise reflections on his favourite books, from Lolita to Anna Karenina, suggest that sex and reading are intertwined
February 2018
Irish novelist Edna O'Brien wins PEN/Nabokov lifetime award
Author behind Country Girls trilogy scoops $50,000 prize for breaking down ‘social and sexual barriers for women in Ireland and beyond’
May 2017
Edmund White webchat – your questions answered on cruising, Paris and teenage sex
The US author and gay cultural icon answered your questions on everything from Jean Genet to the death of the necktie
April 2017
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me by Bill Hayes review – loving Oliver Sacks
Hayes, a gifted writer from California, shared Sacks’s final decade and grew to love the always surprising city they lived in
June 2016
Everyone Is Watching review – a panoramic portrait of New York
Whitman, Mapplethorpe and Edmund White star in Megan Bradbury’s beautifully written debut about what defines America’s most famous city
Rereading
Alan Hollinghurst on Edmund White's gay classic A Boy’s Own Story
A Boy’s Own Story chronicles a teenager’s journey to adulthood in the 1950s midwest
Book of the day
Our Young Man by Edmund White review – sparkling and steamy tale of a male model
A beautiful young man ascends the dizzy heights of the fashion world in White’s playful and profound 11th novel
January 2016
Edmund White: 'I try to be honest. If I lose someone's friendship, so what?'
Why a memoirist’s contract with a reader is to tell the truth, and nothing but the truth
August 2015
Reading American cities
Reading American cities: books about Cincinnati
From the origins of Uncle Tom to the stories of revolutionary, radical women, Michael Griffith takes us on a tour of literary Cincinnati – including Toni Morrison, Edmund White and a drive to attract America’s best poets
February 2015
The Flâneur by Edmund White review – succinct cultural biography of Paris
White’s 2001 paean to the home of Baudelaire is a celebration of the diversity and freedom of big-city life, writes PD Smith
March 2014
Book of the week
Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris by Edmund White – review
Inside a Pearl review – Edmund White's dazzling Paris memoir
July 2012
Best literary sex scenes: writers' favourites
In the wake of the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon, we asked authors to tell us who does sex best in fiction
February 2012
What I see in the mirror
What I see in the mirror: Edmund White
'I'd just as soon look every minute my age, almost as if enduring alone were a form of heroism – or luck'
