Max Porter discusses his latest novel, 'Shy,' offering a moving and murky insight into the life of teenage boys.

Max Porter is taking me on a tour of his house that, because he is in Somerset and I am in Kilkenny, necessitates him picking up his laptop and angling it towards the collections that are his ...

MAX PORTER: (Reading) His heart is bump, bump, bumping like he's scared. Idiot drama with no audience. Overthinking, overlapping voice-overs. We made such good progress today, Shy.

As he releases his fourth novel, ‘Shy’, Max Porter talks to Patrick Sproull about the end of his ‘boyhood’ trilogy, sensitivity readers, and still reading Philip Roth and Ted Hughes ...

Cillian Murphy is set to lead the cast in the film adaptation of "Steve," inspired by Max Porter’s novel "Shy." The story, ...

Cillian Murphy will star in the film adaptation Steve, based on Max Porter’s novel Shy. Set in 1990s England, the narrative follows a troubled teenager at a reform school, capturing his internal ...

"Shy" by Max Porter is a short, fierce novel that can be a rant, a rumination, a reveal - blank verse and blunt talk. Shy, a troubled British teen in the mid-1990s, has been sent to the Last Chance ...

"Shy" by Max Porter is a short, fierce novel that can be a rant, a rumination, a reveal - blank verse and blunt talk. Shy, a troubled British teen in the mid-1990s, has been sent to the Last Chance ...

Katy Waldman reviews “Shy,” the latest novel by Max Porter, the author of “Grief Is the Thing with Feathers,” “Lanny,” and “The Death of Francis Bacon.” ...