Alan Hollinghurst
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Alan Hollinghurst’s Elegy for Britain January 08, 2025
It is hard to think of another living writer who produces structures as ebullient and dirigiblelike as Alan Hollinghurst does. His first novel, The Swimming-Pool Library (1988), depicts London streets, tube stops, pubs, and gym locker rooms as an inf...
What We’re Reading to Start the New Year January 02, 2025
Last July, during the British general election in which the Labour Party ousted the long-ruling Conservative government in a landslide, I picked up “The Line of Beauty,” by Alan Hollinghurst, which I’d somehow neglected to read in the two decades sin...
Alan Hollinghurst’s English Underground December 02, 2024
Given his interest in reconjuring lost Englands, it is fitting that Alan Hollinghurst passes his days alongside one of its best-preserved anachronisms. Hollinghurst’s home abuts Hampstead Heath, the great grassy eruption that bestrides north London, ...
The Author in Evening October 11, 2024
Gay life, fine art, and the British class system have been mainstays of Alan Hollinghurst’s fiction since his dizzyingly explicit debut novel, 1988’s The Swimming-Pool Library. Hollinghurst’s earliest work fizzed with the energy of a newly acquired f...
