The Eternal Frontier

“A sweeping natural history of North America from its birth as a self-contained continent in the Cretaceous Era to its current precarious status as an ecological superpower. . . ….

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

The Great Wall

“From its title, one expects a history of the Great Wall, and in that she does not disappoint. But she delivers much, much more . . . Lovell’s book is…

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…

The Last Crossing

…. Epic novels can be loose, baggy monsters, but this one is stuffed with enough goodies to keep us entertained for days.” –John Vernon, The New York Times Book Review…