Some good writers learn to write shorter. "Lie with Me" (Scribner) is Philippe Besson's 18th book, written in 2016 in what one suspects was one of those seizures of composition that produce such ...

Besson seems to have few qualms about airing intimate details of his life in public, through his books, plays based on them, and on discussion panels. The Tmuna Theater certainly likes to spread ...

Philippe Besson's dreamy wartime love story was first published in 2002, and the reissued version is just as perfect for summer reading In the Absence of Men by Philippe Besson is getting a new ...

Lie With Me: By Philippe Besson, translated by Molly Ringwald, Penguin Books, 160 pages, £8.99 (around ₹780). Set in a suburb outside Bordeaux in the 1980s, the story revolves around the narrator, ...

The celebrated novelist on his friendship with France’s first couple and his latest book, a French Brokeback Mountain. Plus, a Q&A with translator Molly Ringwald When French writer Philippe Besson was ...

Besson (In the Absence of Men) rehashes familiar tropes about secret teenage gay romance in this moving but unoriginal novel. Novelist Philippe, who shares many biographical details with the author, ...

Philippe Besson (born 29 January 1967 in Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire, Charente) is a French writer. In 1999, Besson, a law graduate, was inspired to write his first novel, En l'absence des hommes while ...

EMMANUEL Macron has been accused of cronyism after an author who wrote a favourable book about the French President landed a top diplomatic post. Mr Macron flatly rejected the claims after Philippe ...