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 power of analysis as a driving force in fiction is sometimes underestimated. Take Garth Greenwell’s new novel, “Cleanness,” for example. The way he parses an awkward conversation or a drunken ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

In his new book, the writer sought to create “something that was 100 percent pornographic and 100 percent high art.” By Joshua Barone Reading Garth Greenwell’s new book, “Cleanness,” you might sense a ...

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 ...

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