When Alan Hollinghurst published his scandalizing début, “The Swimming-Pool Library,” in 1988, the lives of gay men were hardly virgin territory for the English novel. Some years earlier, as a ...

Henry James is Alan Hollinghurst’s favorite writer, and in his native England, Hollinghurst, now 70, has over the years acquired a bit of Jamesian eminence himself. He even gets compared to the Master ...

More than two decades after its publication, Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty continues to rank among the most celebrated novels of the 21st century. The bestselling 2004 book has been included ...

Alan Hollinghurst’s fourth novel—just awarded England’s Man Booker Prize—is a scathing examination of the sexual, racial, and class fault lines of the Thatcher era as they converge in one young man’s ...

Alan Hollinghurst has tricked me again. He did it with The Swimming-Pool Library (1988), The Line of Beauty (2004), The Strangers Child (2011), and now he’s done it in The Sparsholt Affair. Each of ...

Novelist Alan Hollinghurst is the literary bard of modern British gay life. His 1987 debut, The Swimming Pool Library, tells the story of a young gay aristocrat tasked with writing the biography of an ...

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.