Besson seems to have few qualms about airing intimate details of his life in public, through his books, plays based on them, and on discussion panels. The Tmuna Theater certainly likes to spread ...

Some good writers learn to write shorter. "Lie with Me" (Scribner) is Philippe Besson's 18th book, written in 2016 in what one suspects was one of those seizures of composition that produce such ...

Lie With Me: By Philippe Besson, translated by Molly Ringwald, Penguin Books, 160 pages, £8.99 (around ₹780). Set in a suburb outside Bordeaux in the 1980s, the story revolves around the narrator, ...

Besson (Lie with Me) offers a haunting and wistful work of autofiction about a fateful summer. “I have never managed to rid myself of that story. It has never left me,” Philippe narrates on the first ...

Besson (In the Absence of Men) rehashes familiar tropes about secret teenage gay romance in this moving but unoriginal novel. Novelist Philippe, who shares many biographical details with the author, ...

“In the Absence of Men”by Philippe Besson disguises itself as a “Call Me by Your Name”-esque, trampling, coming-of-age, off-kilter love story, but in actuality, it expels as a backwards unrealistic ...

Philippe Besson (born 29 January 1967 in Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire, Charente) is a French writer. In 1999, Besson, a law graduate, was inspired to write his first novel, En l'absence des hommes while ...