When writing before about Michel Houellebecq, I have usually made two things clear, never wishing to mislead my readers. First, Houellebecq is the high priest of miserabilism, constantly reminding his ...

Installation View of Michel Houellebecq: French Bashing at Venus, New York (all images courtesy Venus, New York.) Installation View of Michel Houellebecq: French Bashing at Venus, New York As the ...

Michel Houellebecq, the famed novelist and bête noire of the French Left, wasn’t lying about the state of rural France. I ...

Michel Houellebecq speaks quietly. The 47-year-old French author of the controversial best-selling novels "The Elementary Particles" and "Platform" shuffles rather than strides into a room. His looks ...

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 ...

French novelist Michel Houellebecq has acquired celebrity status in France and, increasingly, abroad as a well-established literary shock jock. His latest novel, Plateforme, has the merit of clearly ...

Michel Houellebecq's New Novel Can Humans Survive Without Sex? Michel Houellebecq is back. In his new book "The Possibility of an Island," he tells a virtuoso tale of sex, science fiction and sect ...

Reviled as much as he is lauded, Michel Houellebecq holds up a mirror to a world we would rather not see. By Wyatt Mason In what the author says is his last novel, both a family and a society are on ...

Michel Houellebecq’s “Soumission” (“Submission”) will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the U.S., confirms Jeff Seroy, senior vice president, publicity and marketing. The recently-acquired ...

The new Michel Houellebecq novel, “Serotonin,” is an exhausted and exhausting book. It makes you wonder if he has played out his string as a fiction writer. The narrator is Florent-Claude Labrouste, a ...

The controversial novel published in France on Wednesday about a Muslim running the country according to the laws of conservative Islam has been defended by its author against claims it is ...