Michael Schaub

Paul Beatty’s The Sellout skewers racism, gentrification, and absurdity in America with sharp satire and laugh-out-loud brilliance.

With The Extinction of Irena Rey, Jennifer Croft delivers an exhilarating novel about language and its discontents.

In her climate-crisis novel, Mobility, Lydia Kiesling refuses to look away.

In Sing Her Down, Ivy Pochoda pushes the boundaries of the crime novel.

Charmaine Craig explores envy and attraction in My Nemesis.

In his novel, 40, Alan Heathcock evokes an America gone off the rails.

Jess Walter’s collection The Angel of Rome moves back and forth in time.

In Tell Me How to Be, Neel Patel tracks the distance between a mother and a son.

Percival Everett’s The Trees is a masterful allegory about America and race.

In Rude Talk in Athens, Mark Haskell Smith looks to the ancient roots of comedy.

In her first novel, The Scapegoat, Sara Davis breaks the rules.

In A Children’s Bible, Lydia Millet imagines the end of the world.

In Vagablonde, her debut novel, the author tracks a fantasy life gone off the rails.