Exploding the Phone

A riveting history of the telephone hackers of the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s….

Contact Wounds

From the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times Notable Book, The Dressing Station, comes an electrifying memoir of a doctor’s education in the classroom and on the battlefield….

Phone

“Will Self’s brilliant new novel is an epic anti-tweet . . . the third part of a defiant, self-consciously modernist trilogy. . . staggeringly ambitious, frighteningly intelligent, ludicrous, and brilliant….

When Your Phone Doesn’t Ring, It’ll Be Me

A Diamond in the Desert

Part history, part memoir, part travel guide, this search for the mysteries behind one of the world’s richest cities is “the best book . . . on the Gulf coast…

The Incredible Events in Women’s Cell Number 3

The startling, vivid debut novel by Alexey Navalny’s press secretary, following a woman who is arrested at an anti-corruption rally in Moscow and sentenced to ten days in a special…

A Question of Mercy

“Beautifully considered, piercingly clear-eyed . . . Mr. Rabe, in a play that reestablishes him as one of America’s preeminent dramatists . . . has written an exquisitely controlled about…

Days Without Number

From internationally bestselling author Robert Goddard, a gripping thriller about a family descended from ancient Byzantium and the inheritance of a dangerous secret.

The CEO of the Sofa

“Not content to rest on his laurels, the bestselling humorist O’Rourke instead settles back on his caustic couch to offer a wide-angled worldview from his own living room, his salon…

Badawi

…boy who is a perpetual outsider, from the desert tribe of his ill-fated birth to the South of France and on to the oil fields of the United Arab Emirates….