Max Porter has become something of a patron saint of troubled boys — and of parents under pressure. Shy is the third and shortest of his trio of largely unplotted, unconventional, neo-modernist novels ...

Americans with a friendly disposition toward France have many reasons to hope for Nicolas Sarkozy’s victory in the presidential elections in April. The interior minister and leader of the Union for a ...

Max Porter's compulsively readable primal scream of a novel offers a compassionate portrait of boy jerked around by uncontrollable mood swings... Max Porter has become something of a patron saint of ...