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    • Friday, 28 January, 2022
      FT Books Essay
      Literature’s ‘enfant misérable’: the driving force behind Michel Houellebecq

      The French writer owes his standing to provocative social critique — but does his antagonistic image mask a concern for humanity?

    • Friday, 11 January, 2019
      Janan Ganesh
      Fear of Brave New Worlds is as old as time

      From Voltaire to Houellebecq — art’s pessimists will always find a captive audience

    • Saturday, 15 April, 2017
      News in-depthFrench politics
      French intellectuals lament loss of influence as populism surges

      National Front has given voice to much of working class once represented by the left

    • Friday, 17 June, 2016
      FT Magazine
      Michel Houellebecq: ‘I am a little bit a star’

      The French writer says he’s the world’s best living novelist. Now he has curated a show of his own photographs

    • Friday, 27 November, 2015
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Best books of 2015: Politics

      A round-up of the titles to remember

    • Friday, 11 September, 2015
      ReviewLife & Arts
      ‘Submission’, by Michel Houellebecq

      Secular liberalism is no match for the certainties of religious faith in this satire of a near-future France

    • Thursday, 8 January, 2015
      World
      Charlie Hebdo: Suspect surrenders to police in France

      Photos released of other two suspects after 12 shot dead

    • Wednesday, 7 January, 2015
      Tony Barber
      The gunmen in Paris attacked more than a Muslim-baiting magazine

      The next question is what impact the murders will have on politics, writes Tony Barber

    • Friday, 19 September, 2014
      Life & Arts
      Michel Houellebecq and new film ‘Near Death Experience’

      A controversial French movie is a surprising one-man vehicle for the avant-garde writer

    • Friday, 12 July, 2013
      Life & Arts
      Avignon Festival: death and horror - all welcome

      The festival aims to be inclusive – but its avant-garde offerings can be hard to digest

    • Wednesday, 6 March, 2013
      Michael Skapinker
      You need to take risks to learn a language

      The notion that the teacher can do all the work is nonsense – learning another tongue requires effort

    • Friday, 8 June, 2012
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Synthetic success

      Photographing Michelin maps brings prestige and money to an artist in this novel that tweaks the postmodern conceit of the death of the author

    • Friday, 18 November, 2011
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Public Enemies

      Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Lévy, giants of French literature, publish their six-month exchange of letters

    • Saturday, 17 September, 2011
      ReviewLife & Arts
      The Map and the Territory

      Michel Houellebecq’s tale of art and murder reveals his humanist side

    • Monday, 7 February, 2011
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Public Enemies
    • Monday, 22 June, 2009
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      The Isle of Dogs
    • Friday, 26 September, 2008
      World
      Outside Edge: Hate, not love, speaks volumes
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