Collapse by Édouard Louis review – coming to terms with a brother’s death (opens in new tab)

In the latest autofictional instalment of his family saga, the French writer makes sense of his sibling’s violent homophobia and short life At 33, the French writer Édouard Louis has already seen all seven of his slim novels translated into English. In his breakout debut, (2017), and again in “I felt nothing at the announcement of the death of my brother,” he begins; “not sadness or despair or joy or pleasure.” The reasons for his coldness soon become clear. His brother was violently homophob...