October's best-written recent releases in literary fiction II

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IN TODAY’S ISSUE

—’Hell isn’t the psychosis. Hell is leaving the psychosis’: our next pick from the recent releases in literary fiction. Our previous pick is here, along with the list of books considered.

—‘a prick was an innocent violence, a timid violation, nothing much. Life must go on: errands to run, places to be, jobs to be done’: and our next pick.

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