I have been reading new English translations of Pierre Michon’s prose fiction works Winter Mythologies and Abbots, and I am struck, again, by his great talent. Michon, as one interviewer put it, is ...

From an Anglo-American viewpoint, where translations from France are predominated first by Michel Houellebecq, anti-saint, and second by a nimbus of metaphysical detective novels, Pierre Michon at ...

Pierre Michon is a writers who, while not well known to the general reading public, enjoys a stellar reputation among critics. "Each of his books was like a fine work from goldsmiths, graceful as ...

Pierre Michon is perhaps best thought of as a prose portraitist. His heart is not with the novelists but with the painters, his eye fixed not on our interior worlds but on surfaces and the depths they ...

How do writers for Jeopardy! come up with all those categories and questions? Rachel Lu reviews Mark Regnerus’s Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy: “What do we see when we ...