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 ...

In Sean Hewitt’s novel, “Open, Heaven,” two isolated boys develop an intense, undefined relationship. By Charlie Lee Charlie Lee is an associate editor at Harper’s Magazine. When you purchase an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the past six years, U.K.-born writer Seán Hewitt has published five books in a wide range of genres — from poems to memoirs and literary criticism. His latest work, Open, Heaven, is his first novel ...