Rez Life

A celebrated Native American novelist’s intimate, insider exploration of the history of Indian reservations and contemporary life on the rez….

Flight

“Gutsy . . . Alexie has established an impressive literary reputation as a bold writer who goes straight for the aorta. He is in the business of making his readers…

Exploding the Phone

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

Flight Patterns

These writings exude the primal fear and cool perspective that can only come from seeing the world—and one’s own life—from a great distance. Flight Patterns renders airplane travel a time capsule of…

Flight of the WASP

Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America’s history.

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…