Interventions is a collection of texts by the French writer Michel Houellebecq, including essays, interviews and polemical articles.
[3] Alexander Müller of literaturkritik.de [de] said it will disappoint people who approach it for that reason, comparing it negatively to Houellebecq's novels in its analyses of social processes.
[3] Carole Sweeney says its texts have similar themes as Whatever and Houellebecq's earlier prose work Rester vivant [fr] (1991).
[7] At the publication of Interventions 2, Sébastien Lapaque of Le Figaro described Houellebecq as one of few French writers who defy the zeitgeist by being "bad boys", together with Maurice G. Dantec, Richard Millet, Marc-Édouard Nabe, Christian Laborde [fr], Benoît Duteurtre and Gérard Oberlé.
Granger Remy criticized the publisher for recycling and relabelling material in a way that is dishonest and unworthy of Houellebecq, whose other books she described as "truly coherent, aesthetically and ideologically".
[10] David Sexton of The Spectator says the book's promotion of love and kindness makes Houellebecq appear "far from the depressive slut with an odd knack for prophecy that he is still eagerly reported to be in the British press".