My Book of the Year is Paul B. Preciado’s Dysphoria Mundi. Preciado has long been one of my literary heroes and this long-anticipated book is him at his best; a scathing vision of contemporary life written in an idiom of such tenderness and hope.
Other highlights from this year include; Sarah Hall’s environmental epic Helm; Harriet Armstrong’s debut novel To Rest Our Minds and Bodies; Benjamin Wood’s quietly beautiful Seacscaper; the first UK edition of Diane Seuss’s Modern Poetry published by Fitzcarraldo; Emily LaBarge’s Dog Days; Nightboat Books’s exquisite new edition of Memories That Smell Like Gasoline by David Wojnarowicz; and Francesca Wade’s Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife.
From the publisher:
In Dysphoria Mundi, Paul B. Preciado has written a mutant text assembled from essays, philosophy, poetry and autofiction that captures a moment of profound change and possibility. Rooted in the isolation of the Covid-19 pandemic, and…
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A wondrous, elemental novel from ‘a writer of show-stopping genius’ (Guardian).Helm is a ferocious, mischievous wind — a subject of folklore and wonder, who has blasted the sublime landscape of the Eden Valley since the…
From the publisher:
In her final year of a degree in psychology, and struggling to relate to the world around her and find her place within it, a young woman drifts from lectures on gifts, vision, suicide, the history of global warming, and study groups…
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A mesmerising portrait of a young man confined in by his class and the ghosts of his family's past, dreaming of artistic fulfilment. It confirms Benjamin Wood as an exceptional talent in British literature.'A huge talent' Hilary…
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Diane Seuss’s signature voice – audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude – has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its title, Modern…
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The Good Story may be every story you write, but the Good Story is also not your story. Dog Days considers why we tell stories the way we do, and how we might tell them otherwise. Combining memoir and essay, cultural criticism and…
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David Wojnarowicz, one of the most provocative artists of his generation, explores memory, violence, and the erotism of public space—all under the specter of AIDS.Here are David Wojnarowicz’s most intimate stories and…
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‘A total joy to read.’ SARAH BAKEWELL‘Thrillingly intelligent and original . . . A breakthrough in biographical form.’ EDMUND GORDON‘A discerning literary biography and a page-turning…
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