Michel Houellebecq

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

Sarah Shaffi

04, Oct, 2022 @3:09 PM

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

Lucy Knight

07, Jan, 2022 @9:47 AM

Book clinic: which books examine modern masculinity?

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

Darran Anderson

07, Mar, 2020 @6:00 PM

Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq review – Alan Partridge in Gilead

A depressed agricultural engineer stalks women and rages at the world in Houellebecq’s banal and predictable latest novel

Johanna Thomas-Corr

29, Sep, 2019 @8:00 AM

Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq review – a vision of degraded masculinity

The French satirist is uniquely placed to anatomise the impotence and rage of an embittered bureaucrat

James Lasdun

20, Sep, 2019 @6:29 AM

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

Joanna Kavenna

05, Jun, 2019 @11:00 AM

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

Andrew Anthony

02, Mar, 2019 @6:00 PM

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

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

Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

04, Jan, 2019 @12:36 PM

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

Michel Houellebecq’s poems of love and death are given the last rites and dispatched quickly by John Crace

John Crace

22, Jan, 2017 @5:00 PM

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

Laughter is in short supply in this collection from France’s great satirist and contrarian

David Wheatley

12, Jan, 2017 @2:00 PM

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

You may have missed these books, covering everything from French satire to Kenyan refugee camps, on their initial release – but never fear, the paperbacks are here

Nick Sidwell

30, Sep, 2016 @4:15 PM