In his breakout 2010 debut HHhH, the French novelist Laurent Binet expressed deep doubt about the validity of writing historical fiction — or, rather, his narrator did. Binet's invented history is, ...

Laurent Binet’s first novel, “HHhH,” walked a bit of a tightrope. In writing metafiction about the attempted assassination of the Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich, Binet almost guaranteed that he’d take ...

Laurent Binet's HHhH is about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most egregious of Hitler's henchmen, architect of the Holocaust, head of the Gestapo, protector of Bohemia and Moravia, ...

The Frenchman’s novel about the blurred line between fiction and reality, The 7th Function of Language, is all the more poignant in the era of Trump, Le Pen and fake news The walls may be covered with ...

A breezily charming novel, with a thrilling story that also happens to be true, by a gifted young author amusingly anguished over the question of how to tell it … In principle there's nothing not to ...

Laurent Binet’s latest book, “Civilizations,” imagines what might have been if the Incas invaded Europe in the 16th century. By Tobias Grey PARIS — There is a scene in Laurent Binet’s latest novel, ...