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 ...

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 ...

Over a virtual presentation on Friday, author Garth Greenwell discussed his new book, “Cleanness,” and how the concept of cleanness functions in a worldwide landscape. With anthropology Prof. Adia ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One habit of so-called gay or queer fiction is that of addressing the darkest, dirtiest terrain of sexual activity in prose of Olympian poise, shameless clarity and meticulous detail – it is here that ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Colm Toibin Garth Greenwell’s first novel, “What Belongs to You” (2016), uses mesmeric cadences.

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. “Physical love is unthinkable without violence,” Milan Kundera wrote in “The Unbearable Lightness 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 ...