Alan Hollinghurst doesn’t write quickly. In 30 years, the British author has penned just six novels, however this relatively small collection of beautifully crafted work has earned him a rabid ...

One of the most frequently hailed signs of social progress in the last 50 years is the growing acceptance and mainstreaming of homosexuality in the Western world. No novelist has chronicled this ...

This is FRESH AIR. Our critic at large John Powers has a review of a new book by one of his favorite authors - the Booker Prize-winning English writer Alan Hollinghurst. It's called "The Sparsholt ...

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British author Alan Hollinghurst writes fat novels — and they’re fat for good reason. Hollinghurst wants you to have an all-encompassing sense of your surroundings: the light, the furnishings, the ...

An assured chronicle that moves from a charmer’s wartime years at Oxford to his son’s experiences in modern-day London Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel is almost as hard to pin down as it is to put down.

Hollinghurst's new domestic epic leapfrogs across seven decades to examine how the laws of social propriety shape the destinies of a father and son. Critic John Powers says the novel is fascinating.