This month's best reads include a Hollywood star's literary debut, a Booker longlisted novel and a bold sex-positive anthology.
Welcome to ABC Arts' monthly book column: a shortlist of new releases read and recommended by Claire Nichols and Sarah L'Estrange from The Book Show ; The Bookshelf 's Kate Evans, Nicola Heath from ABC Arts and writer Declan Fry.
Two people walk through the forest where it all happened, one a keen 'trauma tourist', the other an ambivalent but tender hanger-on, spooked by the crime scene tape. An Englishman in America is disconcerted by all the walking dead of Halloween, the hollowness of waiting streets, the sadness of it all — and eventually we find out why.
Sabine is also being stalked. She's receiving unsettling letters under her door and her husband doesn't believe her. She tries different ways to respond to the stalker — martial arts classes, carrying a knife, going to the police — but none of these approaches makes her feel safe. The first book from Michelle Tea's all-new queer publisher, Dopamine Books, Sluts Anthology features nearly 40 writers and artists. It is full of discoveries: ecstasy, selfhood, multiple comings-of-age and, naturally, oodles of slutfun.
Sluts Anthology reminds us that committing to sluthood means giving yourself permission to be inelegant, messy, free. Not necessarily messy and free like those venture-capitalists looking to buy up a bar, as happens in Kamala Puligandla's 'The Slut Factory' , but messy in all the ways the platonic ideal of a slut factory could be.
In 1990, Gíslason was a young man searching for a father figure, having met his biological father for the first time in a rather dispiriting encounter in Reykavík a month earlier. In 2022, he's the father of two teenage sons, who join him with their mother, Olanda, on his research trip in Corfu. Gíslason interweaves the two narratives, three decades apart, in alternating chapters, with his family playing a supporting role and the mystery of the Pirate spurring the story on.
Your weekly destination for in-depth literary interviews as well news and analysis about the publishing industry. A must-listen for lovers of fiction. In Prosser's hands, time travel becomes a way to talk about love and memory and the urge we all have to stop time — just for one magic moment.Let me be honest: I was unsure whether to recommend this. Crushing Snails is a discomfiting read; the territory is dark and often disturbing.
Murray intersperses Winnie's narrative with letters from Winnie's friends and relatives — appeals to the public, suicide notes, transcripts of police interviews — that elaborate the scenes between, all the while showing the effects of Winnie's "deadening", an ongoing process of dissociation.
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