Dr Tony Shaw

The original title of Roland Firbank's short 1924 novel, Prancing Nigger , has today been politically corrected to Sorrow in Sunlight . ...

This should be a deeply shocking book, and indeed it is, as it's about homosexual abuse, pedophilia, although it's not condemnato...

After the devastating En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (2014) and Historie de la violence (2016), Édouard Louis continues his autobiograp...

Strange loves indeed. In a few introductory paragraphs to Roger Peyrefitte's  Les Amours singulières , the book reveals that the two ...

The title refers to the narrator Philippe Besson's mother's criticism of him as a child, telling him to stop telling lies. But li...

Une part de ma vie  is a fascinating, if often intangible, insight into the playwright Bernard-Marie Koltès's work, being a collectio...

Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948–89) died of AIDS three years after the publication of this play,  Dans la solitude des champs de coton (trans....

Des nouvelles d'Édouard is the fourth volume of Chroniques du Plateau Mont-Royal by the gay Québéquois writer Michel Tremblay, and ...

Olivier Delorme's autobiographical novel Le Château du silence didn't initially seem promising to me because of the foreign poli...

I had wondered how Édouard Louis was going to follow up his highly successful En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule – apparently to be translate...

This could be described as Didier Eribon's coming out novel, only not as a homosexual (which he'd already done) but as something...

'L'ÉCRIVAIN Jean-Baptiste NIEL 1962 – 1995'   Jean-Baptiste Niel wrote a thesis on Marie Noël, French teacher a...

Philippe Besson, it seems, can always be relied upon to produce a very good outsider novel, and Un instant d'abandon is no exceptio...

'WILLIAM BARANÈS DIT GUILLAUME DUSTAN 1965 – 2005 MAGISTRAT . ÉCRIVAIN . ÉDITEUR'   ' J'AI TOUJOURS ÉTÉ...

Guy Hocquenghem's L'Amour en relief (translated as Love in Relief ) is a long, very strange mixture of essay on blindness, socia...

Dominique Fernandez's La Gloire du paria (lit. 'The Glory of the Pariah') is set in 1986, at about the time when AIDS was cr...

There are superficial similarities between Philippe Besson's Un garcon d'Italie and Linda Lê's Lame de fond (2012), mainly ...

Christophe Donner was born Christophe Quiniou in 1956 and has written a large number of books, about half of them (for children) written...

François-Paul Alibert (1873–1953) was a poet and a journalist who was born and buried in Carcassonne. His erotic gay novel Le Supplice...

Most of the men are absent in this summer of 1916 because they're fighting in World War I, although a few men are brought together i...