Alan Hollinghurst | The New York Review of Books

In the Shadow of Young Men in Flower

In Andrew Holleran's novels, the inescapable narrowness of his world is transcended and given poetic resonance by his close and steady attention to pain and loneliness.

The Kingdom of Sand

by Andrew Holleran

August 18, 2022 issue

A Snob’s Progress

A new edition of Henry "Chips" Channon's diaries gives fascinating glimpses of homosocial desire in a hectic narrative of aristocratic and political life.

The Diaries: 1918–38

by Henry “Chips” Channon, edited by Simon Heffer

May 27, 2021 issue

The Meaning of Home

On Bryan Washington's intimate portraits of queer life in ever-mutating multiethnic Houston.

Lot

by Bryan Washington

Memorial

by Bryan Washington

December 17, 2020 issue

The Same, But Different

Cathleen Schine’s brilliantly funny new novel ‘The Grammarians’

The Grammarians

by Cathleen Schine

November 21, 2019 issue

The Impersonator

On Jeremy Thorpe and ‘A Very English Scandal’

A Very English Scandal

a television series written by Russell T. Davies and directed by Stephen Frears

December 20, 2018 issue

Letter

Richard Davenport-Hines

Shooting Down A Legend

February 7, 2019 issue

Artifice and Actuality

Blindness

by Henry Green, with an introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn

Living

with an introduction by Adam Thirlwell

Party Going

with an introduction by Amit Chaudhuri

Caught

with an introduction by James Wood

Loving

with an introduction by Roxana Robinson

Back

with an introduction by Deborah Eisenberg

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August 17, 2017 issue

Serious, Silly, Charming, & Heartless

The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me: An Aristocratic Family, a High-Society Scandal and an Extraordinary Legacy

by Sofka Zinovieff

April 23, 2015 issue

The Victory of Penelope Fitzgerald

An utterly distinctive talent, with no obvious debts to anybody

The Bookshop

by Penelope Fitzgerald

Offshore

by Penelope Fitzgerald, with an introduction by Alan Hollinghurst

Human Voices

by Penelope Fitzgerald

At Freddie’s

by Penelope Fitzgerald, with an introduction by Simon Callow

Innocence

by Penelope Fitzgerald, with an introduction by Julian Barnes

The Beginning of Spring

by Penelope Fitzgerald

The Gate of Angels

by Penelope Fitzgerald

The Blue Flower

by Penelope Fitzgerald, with an introduction by Candia McWilliam

Edward Burne-Jones

by Penelope Fitzgerald, with an introduction by Frances Spalding

Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

by Hermione Lee

The Golden Child

by Penelope Fitzgerald

The Knox Brothers

by Penelope Fitzgerald, with an introduction by Richard Holmes

Charlotte Mew and Her Friends

by Penelope Fitzgerald, with an introduction by Michèle Roberts

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December 4, 2014 issue

Grief, Rage, Cognac, and a Computer

'The Chemistry of Tears' by Peter Carey

The Chemistry of Tears

by Peter Carey

August 16, 2012 issue

‘The Stranger’s Child’: An Exchange

January 12, 2012 issue

A World Cracked Open

By Nightfall

by Michael Cunningham

December 9, 2010 issue

Underground Men

Netherland

by Joseph O’Neill

September 25, 2008 issue

Passion and Henry James

Henry James: The Mature Master

by Sheldon M. Novick

February 14, 2008 issue

When in Rome

Satyr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome

by Leonard Barkan

June 14, 2007 issue

Eminent Anti-Victorian

The Letters of Lytton Strachey

edited by Paul Levy

March 9, 2006 issue

Child of the Century

Quicksands: A Memoir

by Sybille Bedford

August 11, 2005 issue

On ‘The Ivory Tower’

March 11, 2004 issue