“I just finished Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers, an unforgettable portrait of life in the slums of Mumbai. It’s one of the best nonfiction books I’ve ever read. Gary Shteyngart is the bard of our economic era, and the renminbi-pegged econotechnoglobodystopia he concocts in Super Sad True Love Story is genius and hilarious.”
— Grunwald is TIME’s senior national correspondent and the author of The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era (due in August)