If the first warm summer breezes have put you in the mood for romance, Philippe Besson has just the thing. It follows the aristocratic, impish Vincent who, at 16, was too young at the start of the ...

'Last night, when we were talking here around the fire, I began to think that the very soul of the world is economic, and that the lowest abyss is not the absence of love, but the absence of coin.' ...

In 1941, as Allied bombs fell on Italy and Benito Mussolini plunged his country further into war, the young Italian filmmaker Alberto Lattuada explained how 20 years of fascist rule had led to ...

In the Absence of Men by Philippe Besson is getting a new edition on June 3 The book follows two young men, a soldier and an aristocrat, engaged in a torrid love affair during World War I An exclusive ...