The author, whose new novel was the cover subject on Charlie Hebdo's issue published the day of the Paris terrorist attack, responds to criticism. By Rhonda Richford The Kidnapping of Michel ...

Regular readers know that I’m enamored, in a bittersweet way, with the novels of Michel Houellebecq. Bittersweet, because Houellebecq’s novels are extraordinarily bleak, but they are also ...

As a public intellectual in France, if not as a novelist, Michel Houellebecq boasts all the qualifications of a successful provocateur: debated in the national dailies, denounced by the Prime Minister ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In the latest Paris Review French novelist Michel Houellebecq says he's a provocateur who wants to be ...

I attended the press screening for “The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq” with the expectation that I would learn something about the controversial novelist whose name has become synonymous with ...

Novelist Michel Houellebecq became one of France’s best literary exports with his bad-boy attitude, and writing so raw and explicit that it could make even the saltiest readers blush. Now, to ...

It’s hard to know with notorious French novelist Michel Houellebecq how much is provocation and how much is art. That, of course, is the whole point. Since the publication of his first novel “Whatever ...

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Controversial French author Michel Houellebecq has lost a lawsuit, permitting a Dutch art collective to release footage of him having sex with multiple young women. The 67-year-old Houellebecq agreed ...