Fiction / World Literature / American / 21st Century

Baudrillard meets Breaking Bad in this stark and bleakly hilarious novel about a descent into an underclass world of born-again Christianity, self-help, and crack.

A novel set in 1991, post-MTV, pre-AOL: Sylvie, longing for a life more like the TV show thirtysomething, sets off with her husband, Columbia University professor Jerome, to Romania to adopt a child.

A novel set in post-9/11 New York City about a supermodel and the ultimate Broadway blockbuster.

The world of computation according to Turing, an interactive tutoring program, as told to star-crossed lovers: a novel.