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Michel Houellebecq

May 2023

  • FRANCE-POLITICS-GOVERNMENT-PORTRAIT<br>French Minister for Economy, Finance, Industry and Digital Security Bruno Le Maire poses during a photo session at home in Paris on April 27, 2023. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP) (Photo by JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

    Non, minister. Spare us the derriere sex scenes and stick to politics

    Alex Clark
    Bruno Le Maire isn’t the only politician to try his hand at an erotic novel, but one passage has been singled out for attention

March 2023

  • Michel Houellebecq in 2019.

    Michel Houellebecq sex film to be released despite attempt to stop it

    Amsterdam court dismisses French author’s complaint against film that shows him having sex with young women

October 2022

  • Salman Rushdie.

    Salman Rushdie among favourites for this year’s Nobel prize for literature

    The novelist, who was stabbed earlier this year as he was about to give a public lecture, is highly placed by bookmakers to win this year’s award

January 2022

  • Michel Houellebecq.

    Michel Houellebecq envisages 2027 French election in latest novel Destroy

    New book by firebrand author features a Macron-like outgoing leader as well as real-life figures including far-right Éric Zemmour

March 2020

  • Édouard Louis

    Book clinic
    Book clinic: which books examine modern masculinity?

    Writer Darran Anderson bypasses Houellebecq in favour of fiction from Édouard Louis to Hanif Kureishi

September 2019

  • Michel Houellebecq (c) Philippe Matsas author photo

    Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq review – Alan Partridge in Gilead

  • Michel Houellebecq

    Book of the day
    Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq review – a vision of degraded masculinity

June 2019

  • Lina Wolff

    The Polyglot Lovers by Lina Wolff review – highly enjoyable absurdist comedy

    The hoary concept of the male genius is under fire in a rollicking satire of sex, literature and desperation

March 2019

  • Author and birdwatcher Jonathan Franzen, at Natural Bridges Farm where he goes to birdwatch in Santa Cruz, California, September 30th, 2018.

    Book clinic
    Book clinic: which books could improve my ability to adapt to a changing environment?

    Our expert picks titles that explore both family and societal transitions, from Jonathan Franzen to Cormac McCarthy

January 2019

  • Michel Houellebecq

    'Vanquished white male': Houellebecq's new novel predicts French discontent

    Enfant terrible awarded Légion d’honneur as ‘scathing, visionary’ novel Serotonin is released

January 2017

  • Michel Houellebecq poetry digested read illustration by Matt Blease

    Digested read
    Unreconciled: Poems 1991-2013 by Michel Houellebecq – digested read

  • Rhythmical grumbles … Michel Houellebecq.

    Unreconciled by Michel Houellebecq review – perfectly suited to the age of Trump

September 2016

  • Michel Houellebecq, 2014

    Best new paperbacks of the month
    Best new paperbacks of the month: Houellebecq, Slovo and British short stories

  • A large bust by Gustinus Ambrosi of Friedrich Nietzsche.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 stories of hubris

June 2016

  • Controversial, award-winning French author Michel Houellebecq stands next to his x-rayed skull as he visits his exhibition at Manifesta 11, the roving European Biennial of contemporary art, on June 10, 2016 in Zurich. Houellebecq shows X-rays and other visual results of his head and body in an exhibition entilted "Is Michel Houellebecq OK ?" / AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINIFABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images

    Adrian Searle encounters
    Wake up and smell the Manifesta: piles of poo and a look inside Houellebecq's head

    The art biennial known for pushing boundaries of taste has outdone itself in Zurich, sculpting a day’s worth of excrement, medically exhibiting the French author and making a Paralympic champion wheelchair on water

March 2016

  • John Malkovitch in the 1988 film version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 hateful characters you love in literature

    Really awful people in Dostoevsky, DeLillo and beyond have some paradoxically endearing qualities. Debut novelist Heinz Helle explains why, and recommends some of the best of the worst

February 2016

  • Gérard Depardieu and Benoît Poelvoorde in Saint Amour.

    Saint Amour review: Gérard Depardieu irresistible as boozy farmer on road trip

    Three unlikely heroes take to the road in this broad but pleasing picturesque (think Sideways sans pathos), featuring improbable sex and a kooky cameo from Michel Houellebecq

December 2015

  • (FILES) - A picture taken on September 1st, 2014 at Venice Lido shows French writer Michel Houellebecq posing during the photocall of the movie "Near Death Experience" presented in the Orizzonti selection at the 71st Venice Film Festival. The new book out by French "enfant terrible" author Michel Houellebecq has sparked uproar even before its publication. "Soumission" ("Submission"), the sixth novel by Houellebecq -- one of France's best-known and most widely translated authors -- deals with subject matter especially likely to stir debate in a France undergoing political and economic turmoil. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYSGABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Michel Houellebecq: profane or prophetic? – books podcast

  • Scout’s return ... a woman reads Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee while queuing to buy it shortly after its midnight launch in London in July.

    Books blog
    2015 in books news: tragedies and triumphs

November 2015

  • Comedian and author Mark Watson

    On my radar
    On my radar: Mark Watson’s cultural highlights

    The comedian and author on his mixed feelings about Michel Houellebecq and the importance of risk-taking
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