Caoilinn Hughes – The Alternatives (2024)
A cleverly composed family novel about care and climate.
Annie Jacobsen – Nuclear War: A Scenario (2024)
A cinematic glimpse into Armageddon.
Jesse Ball – The Repeat Room (2024)
In this frightening society of interchangeable robes, telescreens and plastic trays, much of the writing lands with the potency of a punch in the stomach.
Marianne Brooker – Intervals (2024)
Perfectly composed: a brilliant essay on care, grief, love and death.
S.H. Fernando Jr. – The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast (2024)
A singular, mischievous and meticulous artist, carefully unpacked.
Samantha Harvey – Orbital (2023)
Writing that feels like it glitters and levitates.
Claire-Louise Bennett – Pond (2015)
“In solitude, you don’t need to make an impression on the world, so the world has some opportunity to make an impression on you.”
Miranda July – All Fours (2024)
Here we are, witnessing a masterful and unstoppable artist perfecting her craft.
Werner Herzog – Every Man for Himself and God Against All (2023)
Herzog has lived many lives and exudes an endless curiosity — as if, as a child, he fell into a Bavarian creek awash with potion and clambered out anew, like some German Obelix.
Paul Auster – The New York Trilogy (1987)
If Baumgartner was his latest effort, I wondered, what had the polished diamond looked like when it still was rough?
Miranda July – The First Bad Man (2015)
Peculiar, hilarious, disturbing and even ridiculous—but, incredibly engrossing.
Paul Lynch – Prophet Song (2023)
Relentless and unforgiving; a whirlwind of a novel about a country on the brink of totalitarianism.