You Know You Want This

Kristen Roupenian Jonathan Cape €18.20

In 2017, Kristen Roupenian’s Cat Person came as close as a short story can to breaking the internet – and not just because it had ‘cat’ in its title, either. Based on the first-time author’s own dating life, the viral sensation nodded to the emergent #MeToo moment while also doing something far beyond the reach of a hashtag: delving deep into the power dynamic between men and women that drives physical intimacy. The 11 new stories flanking it here are equally compulsive, equally repellent. You’ll be left longing for the bygone days of courtship.