Michèle Mendelssohn is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Deputy Director at the Rothermere American Institute

Denis Flannery is Associate Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Leeds

Introduction: A dialogue on influence - Denis Flannery and Michèle Mendelssohn
1. Hollinghurst's poetry - Bernard O'Donoghue
2. The touch of reading in Hollinghurst's early prose - Angus Brown
3. Poetry, parody, porn and prose - Michèle Mendelssohn
4. Race, empire and The Swimming Pool Library - John McLeod
5. The Stranger's Child and The Aspern Papers: queering origin stories and questioning the visitable past - Julie Rivkin
6. Ostentatiously discreet: bisexual camp in The Stranger's Child - Joseph Ronan
7. Hollow auguries: eccentric genealogies in The Folding Star and The Spell - Robert L. Caserio
8. Some properties of fiction: value and fantasy in Hollinghurst's house of fiction - Geoff Gilbert
9. Cinema in the library - Alan O'Leary
10. Using Racine in 1990: or, translating theatre in time - Denis Flannery
11. 'Who are you? What the fuck are you doing here?': queer debates and contemporary connections - Kaye Mitchell
12. What can I say? Secrets in fiction and biography - Hermione Lee interviews Alan Hollinghurst
Index