What would Henry James think? is not the most useful question that could be asked about Garth Greenwell's fiction, but if The Master were our contemporary, he might opt instead for the role of slave ...

In the opening section of Garth Greenwell’s much-anticipated second book, “Cleanness,” the narrator, an American high school literature teacher in Sofia, Bulgaria, meets with one of his students in a ...

The follow-up to What Belongs to You explores love, anonymity and the dark side of sex in beautiful sentences, but veers into solipsism In one of the stories that make up Garth Greenwell’s new book, ...

With explicit, unflinching prose, Garth Greenwell’s debut novel What Belongs to You became an instant classic when it was published in 2016. In it, an unnamed American narrator teaches abroad in Sofia ...

Four years ago, Garth Greenwell published a debut novel about an American teacher who falls in love with a gay hustler in Bulgaria. “What Belongs to You” might have withered unnoticed in the weeds of ...

Garth Greenwell is a writer of delicacy, beauty, and importance, writing about things you haven’t read about before. A poet turned fiction writer, Greenwell discusses engaging sex through its human ...

“Cleanness” is a testament to writing as an art form, proof that sometimes beauty lies in the technical details. In his sophomore novel, Garth Greenwell writes sentence upon sentence that shimmer with ...

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Garth Greenwell is a writer of delicacy, beauty, and importance, writing about things you haven’t read about before. A poet turned fiction writer, Greenwell discusses engaging sex through its human ...