18 Brilliant Books for Fall
Gary Shteyngart's novel about a boorish Wall Streeter on a hilarious and heartbreaking trip across America, an education from historian Jill Lepore on the narrative of the United States, mind-expanding works of pulp fiction and philosophy, and more.
5 of 18
Beautiful Country Burn Again
By Ben Fountain
448 pages;
Ecco
The fearless fiction writer's foray into politics places 2016's surreal election alongside America's formative existential crises—slavery and the Great Depression among them—to suggest that from the ashes, a better nation can rise. Forget the eagle; maybe our true mascot is the phoenix.
— Michelle Hart
Published 09/21/2018
