These gorgeous new novels explore sex with empathy, complexity, and radical honesty

In her reviews of two January novels, EW critic Leah Greenblatt observes how authors Garth Greenwell and Miranda Popkey uniquely and…

In her reviews of two January novels, EW critic Leah Greenblatt observes how authors Garth Greenwell and Miranda Popkey uniquely and urgently write about desire.returns — still an American teacher adrift in Bulgaria, an obscure, nicotine-fugued blotch on the map of Eastern Europe. He counsels a young student crushed by unrequited love; attends a festive, wayward street protest in the capital; recounts various sexual encounters sprung from the most masochistic corners of the internet.

It’s those rules of engagement that seem to intrigue Greenwell most; the intoxicating and almost painful honesty of his unflinching gaze on desire as “the key to the latch of the self, or the promised key, a key that maybe never turns.” What do women talk about when we talk about sex? The physical act is a touchstone in Popkey’s lean, bracingly unsentimental debut, but the subtext is everything else: envy, intimacy, loneliness, self-control.

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