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Richard Mirabella recommends
Hocus Pocus (2026)
Brinda Charry
"Hocus Pocus is a rare and beautifully controlled novel of magic, intrigue, and obsession. Brinda Charry weaves a tapestry of curiosities, and has created a cast of characters as vivid and mind-bending as the best illusions. Delightful and dangerous. A feat of marvelous showmanship!"
There's Only One Sin in Hollywood (2026)
Rasheed Newson
"Unabashedly erotic, irresistible, and heartbreaking, There's Only One Sin in Hollywood exposes the hidden gay world of the movies--the connections, dealings, and dramas of its Black figures--with panache and authority. Sparkling with real-life and invented Hollywood stars, and threaded with a complicated love of the movies, Rasheed Newson's second novel is an American tale of the first order. It will grip you until the last page."
Playing Wolf (2025)
Zuzana Říhová
"Playing Wolf is a fascinating combination of rural creepiness and gruesome fairy tale imagery. Zuzana Rihova's prose, beautifully translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker, swirls with thoughts, paranoia, dread, and disappointment. You will cringe at the body horror, the wrong turns, the failure of the characters to see the danger before them, to escape the fairy tale they've inevitably fallen into. Gripping as it is harrowing!"
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