The Audio Book Club

The Sparsholt Affair

How does Alan Hollinghurst’s multigenerational saga represent the gay experience?

Slate’s Alex Barasch, Laura Miller, and Gabriel Roth discuss The Sparsholt Affair, by Alan Hollinghurst. The novel traces the interconnected histories of a group of men, most of them gay, from wartime Oxford to 21st-century London.

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Podcast production by Benjamin Frisch.