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Peter Wild is the author of The Passenger & a biography of Akira Kurosawa, as well as co-author of Before the Rain and the editor of The Flash, Perverted by Language: Fiction inspired by The Fall, The Empty Page: Fiction inspired by Sonic Youth (US: Noise: Fiction inspired by Sonic Youth) & Paint a Vulgar Picture: Fiction inspired by The Smiths.
“When it was good, it was very good” – The Fugitives by Jamal Mahjoub
“Not an easy read” – The Shutter of Snow by Emily Holmes Coleman
“Engenders a sort of temporal vertigo” – Notes from Deep Time by Helen Gordon
“Not a perfect read” – The Unfilmable Confederacy of Dunces by Stephan Eicke
“A rare gem” – River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
“Out of time” – The War for Gloria by Atticus Lish
“A comedic postcard from the edge” – Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey
“Interesting and important” – Bloodbath Nation by Paul Auster (photos Spencer Ostrander)
“It’s fresh” – Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors
“Carefully layered” – Unfinished Business by Michael Bracewell
“Works in the same way as Michael Haneke’s film The White Ribbon” – Irmina by Barbara Yelin
“Not a light read, but it’s a worthwhile one” – Run and Hide by Pankaj Mishra
“You might find yourself cheering” – Muppets in Moscow by Natasha Lance Rogoff
“Red in tooth and claw” – The Tangle by Justin Robertson
“Nothing better can be hoped for” – T H White: A Biography by Sylvia Townsend Warner
White Riot by Joe Thomas
“Linguistically exuberant” – Avalon by Nell Zink
“Ellis is back” – The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis
“Chockful of invention” – Your Wish is My Command by Deena Mohamed
“Explores grand human concerns” – To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
“Arresting and unusual” – W the Whore by Anke Feuchtenberger and Katrin De Vries (trans. Mark Nevins)
“Deliberately pedestrian” – Tides by Sara Freeman
“A special book for difficult times” – The Reactor by Nick Blackburn
“Immensely powerful” – The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
“Sense and nonsense were meat and drink” – Magritte, A Life by Alex Danchev
Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2023 – Part 5
Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2023 – Part 4
Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2023 – Part 3
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