The problem with first love is that it's almost always followed quickly by first heartbreak. While it's true that some high-school romances endure for decades, for the most part, today's teenager in ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If the first warm summer breezes have put you in the mood for romance, Philippe Besson has just the thing. It follows the ...

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, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

In the Absence of Men by Philippe Besson is getting a new edition on June 3 The book follows two young men, a soldier and an aristocrat, engaged in a torrid love affair during World War I An exclusive ...