A sentimental Houellebecq, Garriga Vela’s feast of imagination and other books of the week

Whether it is accepted with greater or lesser reluctance, Michel Houellebecq’s dazzling narrative career has been sustained on the basis of a conjugation of virulent philippics against these liquid and hypermodern times of misrule, consumerism and banality. In Annihilation, his latest and long-awaited novel – which deals with a future presidential campaign in France, with … Read more