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Ever since my father presented me with a copy of The Unicorn, beautifully tran…
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Alan Hollinghurst
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3 months ago
‘There’s a sense of our freedoms becoming vulnerable’: novelist Alan Hollinghurst ⊕⊕
A knighthood, a lifetime achievement award and a hit theatre production of The Line of Beauty… the author on a year of personal success and political change
If there can be a downside to receiving a l…
5 months ago
The Line of Beauty review – Hollinghurst’s Gatsby-esque social satire is a class act ⊕⊕
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Almeida theatre, London
Jack Holden has elegantly adapted Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker winner about class envy, gay culture and political scandal in 80s Britain
How to adapt a novel as big and shimmering…
6 months ago
‘A hunger for wild, physical sensation’: Alan Hollinghurst on painter and writer Denton Welch who died tragically young ○
When the young painter was left severely injured after being knocked off his bike, he began to write – with astonishing vividness. As his paintings go on show, novelist Alan Hollinghurst celebrates t…
8 months ago
The Light of Day by Christopher Stephens and Louise Radnofsky audiobook review – a pioneer of gay liberation ○
Stephens narrates his account of Roger Butler’s role in the gay rights movement before losing his sight – and their later life-changing friendship
When Christopher Stephens was a student at Oxford in …
This year’s Booker prize longlist looks in new directions ○
Former winner Kiran Desai leads a varied field, while Alan Hollinghurst misses out
• Most global Booker prize longlist in a decade features Kiran Desai and Tash Aw
This year’s Booker judges had a crowd…
10 months ago
Edmund White remembered: ‘He was the patron saint of queer literature’ ○
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Colm Tóibín, Alan Hollinghurst, Adam Mars-Jones and more recall the high style and libidinous freedom of a writer who ‘was not a gateway to gay literature but a main destination’
• Edmund White, novel…
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