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Body language: ‘The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen’
Echoing folktales and fables, Krissy Kneen’s memoir contemplates the body’s visceral knowledge of inherited trauma
With stripped-down eloquence, the Australian novelist delivers a raging memoir about her rape as a teenager
After her landmark ‘Outline’ trilogy, the author’s latest novel is inspired by a memoir about D.H. Lawrence in New Mexico
Mind over meta: ‘No One Is Talking About This’
The debut novel from the extremely online Patricia Lockwood considers how the virtual invades the real
The powerlessness of one: ‘Gunk Baby’
Jamie Marina Lau’s dreamlike second novel explores what, if anything, the individual can do to tackle structural issues
All things considered: Emily Maguire’s ‘Love Objects’
The Australian writer’s latest novel portrays hoarding with an acute understanding of the deeply human desire to connect
‘On the Line’ by Joseph Ponthus
Poetry is found in the processing plants of Brittany
The lightness of unbearable being: ‘Double Blind’
Edward St Aubyn tackles familiar themes – desire, drug use, psychoanalysis – via a fresh suite of characters
The death of Yokununna: ‘Return to Uluru’
Mark McKenna explores Australia’s history of violence, dispossession and deception through one tragic incident
The rest is commentary: ‘Suppose a Sentence’
Brian Dillon goes in pursuit of the pleasure of the sentence in his latest nonfiction book