Non-fiction
The Collected Works of Jo Ann Beard (2023)
“My first love was poetry, my second love was fiction and my third and lasting love was the essay.”
Fiction
Caoilinn Hughes – The Alternatives (2024)
A cleverly composed family novel about care and climate.
Non-fiction
Annie Jacobsen – Nuclear War: A Scenario (2024)
A cinematic glimpse into Armageddon.
Fiction
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.
Non-fiction
Marianne Brooker – Intervals (2024)
Perfectly composed: a brilliant essay on care, grief, love and death.
Non-fiction
S.H. Fernando Jr. – The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast (2024)
A singular, mischievous and meticulous artist, carefully unpacked.
Fiction
Samantha Harvey – Orbital (2023)
Writing that feels like it glitters and levitates.
Fiction
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.”
Fiction
Miranda July – All Fours (2024)
Here we are, witnessing a masterful and unstoppable artist perfecting her craft.
Non-fiction
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.
Fiction
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?
Fiction
Miranda July – The First Bad Man (2015)
Peculiar, hilarious, disturbing and even ridiculous—but, incredibly engrossing.