James Lasdun | The New York Review of Books

James Lasdun

James Lasdun was born in London and now lives in upstate New York. He has published three books of poetry—A Jump Start, Woman Police Officer in Elevator, and Landscape with Chainsaw—and three collections of short stories, most recently Besieged (Selected Stories), of which the title story was made into a film by Bernardo Bertolucci.

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Houellebecq in the Flesh

What Guillaume Nicloux’s film *The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq* seems to have recognized is that Houellebecq’s appeal has to do with something more creaturely, more bodily even, than simply his well-furnished intellect, or his gift for causing offense, or even his originality as a novelist.

March 24, 2015