India, Aug. 28 -- Murder Bimbo (2026) by Rebecca Novack. We never know her name. We only know her as a 32-year-old queer sex-worker who has just killed a far-right politician. She first emails a feminist podcast introducing herself as Murder Bimbo, convincing them that she was acting on behalf of undercover agents. But to an ex, she recasts the same tale as not the victim, but a calculating participant. There are more versions, more revisions. Don't trust her. But hear her out. The true story underneath it all is how women, sex workers and killers are consumed as stories.

The Coin (2024) by Yasmin Zaher. The unnamed narrator is a wealthy Palestinian in New York, trapped in compulsive rituals of cleanliness and control. This could have be...