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 ...

Besson (Lie with Me) offers a haunting and wistful work of autofiction about a fateful summer. “I have never managed to rid myself of that story. It has never left me,” Philippe narrates on the first ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

Set in a small French village, it’s a tale of love and loss and how life moves on, told through 17-year-old boys who fall in love, are separated and almost reunited decades later. If you liked Call Me ...

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 ...