This past week, Seán Hewitt published his debut novel, Open, Heaven. The story follows 16-year-old James as he comes to terms with his sexuality. Set in a remote northern English village, James longs ...

Open Heaven is the debut novel by Irish poet Seán Hewitt is reminiscent of Garth Greenwell, Justin Torres and Andre Aciman in the intensity of its evocation of sexual awakening. Set in a remote ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Flower & Herb soon fill the air with an innumerable Dance,/ Yet all in order sweet & lovely, Men are sick with ...

Just as for his remarkable memoir, All Down Darkness Wide, Sean Hewitt has borrowed the title of his debut novel from another poet, writes Conor Hanratty. The lovesick narrator, James, is prompted by ...

Young love: we’ve all known its roiling agonies and shimmering ecstasies. Our pop songs brim with it, suffusing our adult lives with the perfumes of nostalgia, yet for the most part – at least in the ...