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 ...

Award-winning French writer Philippe Besson bares his soul at this year’s Tmuna Theater Festival Besson seems to have few qualms about airing intimate details of his life in public, through his books, ...