The award-winning and controversial author of ‘The Elementary Particles’ surprises fans with a new album due for release on ...

Michel Houellebecq, Author, trans. from the French by Frank Wynne. Knopf $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-41462-6 Controversially and unsuccessfully charged in France under hate crimes laws, Houellebecq ...

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 ...

Platform, by Michel Houellebecq. Alfred A. Knopf, 259 pages, $25. It’s tempting to believe that Michel Houellebecq is not Europe’s most widely read and hotly debated contemporary novelist but is, ...

The exhibition houellebecq! by Adam Štech is neither a tribute to the French writer Michel Houellebecq nor an illustration of his works ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this week’s magazine, Adam Gopnik writes about the controversial French satirist Michel Houellebecq, whose work has been derided as racist and obscene but whose books sell well in France and have ...

The controversial cult author learns to love his kidnappers in this bleakly funny French farce. By Stephen Dalton The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq Berlin Film Festival - H 2014 Shot in hand-held ...

A play from the controversial French writer Michel Houellebecq has been yanked from a prominent summer festival in Croatia, with officials citing security concerns arising from Houellebecq’s writings ...