Germany’s (French) lit bad boy: Michel Houellebecq
Why is French author Michel Houellebecq so beloved in Germany?
Books
Still dividing the critics: Houellebecq’s “Serotonin”
After instantly becoming (another) best-seller in his native France upon release in January, novelist Michel Houellebecq's "Serotonin" […]
Stage
A possibility missed: Houellebecq’s “The Possibility of an Island”
Robert Borgmann’s Berliner Ensemble adaptation of bad-boy French novelist Michel Houellebecq's 2005 best-seller leaves you feeling like […]
Stage
To go or not to go: Whatever
A weird, surreal but at times almost too farcical adaptation of Houellebecq’s polarising debut novel about a depressed computer […]
Politics
OUT NOW! Our FEBRUARY issue!
From hookup apps to polyamory, from impossible and extramarital romance to the psychology of love, we explore […]