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BUY THE BOOK Amazon Apple Books Indiebound Powell’s https://ayadakhtar.com/contact-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-11 https://ayadakhtar.com/press daily 0.75 2026-03-14 https://ayadakhtar.com/about daily 0.75 2025-06-04 https://ayadakhtar.com/order-homeland-elegies daily 0.75 2021-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e20da29b090d7292f4cc76d/1614013900376-114K1BS5IG4JD0QHPS54/Homeland+NYT.jpg HOMELAND ELEGIES ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2020 The New York Times 10 Best Books Barack Obama: A Favorite Book of 2020 The Washington Post 10 Best Books TIME Magazine 10 Best Books - Fiction Publishers Weekly Top 10 Books O Magazine Book of the Year Kirkus Reviews Book of the Year New York Public Library: A Best Book of 2020 BUY THE BOOK Amazon Apple Books Barnes & Noble Bookshop.org Indiebound Powell’s A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in post-Trump America. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. “Pitch perfect…virtuosic.” — The New York Times “Tour de force…a phenomenal coalescence of memoir, fiction, history and cultural analysis.” — Ron Charles, The Washington Post “A crescendo of grievance reminiscent of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl...[Akhtar] denounces the nation’s recent sins and failures…rails against the country’s cult of greed, its prostitution of private life for public attention, its allegiance to devices...to give his own account of the riven nation.” –Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker “The best book of the year.” — Junot Diaz, O Magazine “Akhtar reckons with the promises and deceptions of the American dream in this wrenching work…this tragicomedy is a revelation.” — Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) “Profound and provocative.” — Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) https://ayadakhtar.com/home2 daily 0.75 2021-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e20da29b090d7292f4cc76d/1616427671192-8196WNDG0I1I7OR18DPC/Akhtar_HomelandElegies_PB.jpg Home - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York Times 10 Best Books Barack Obama: A Favorite Book of 2020 The Washington Post 10 Best Books TIME Magazine 10 Best Books - Fiction Publishers Weekly Top 10 Books O Magazine Book of the Year Kirkus Reviews Book of the Year New York Public Library: A Best Book of 2020 “Pitch perfect…virtuosic.” — The New York Times ORDER THE BOOK https://ayadakhtar.com/events daily 0.75 2021-09-08 https://ayadakhtar.com/book-club daily 0.75 2021-04-08 https://ayadakhtar.com/philip-roth daily 0.75 2026-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e20da29b090d7292f4cc76d/207c2d8e-6745-4cc1-9624-200eb24a7337/Ayad+Author+Photo.jpg Home (Philip Roth) - “SELECTED AFFINITY”: 2021 Philip Roth Lecture Ayad Akhtar delivered the Philip Roth Lecture on November 4, 2021 at the Newark Public Library. Click here for the full text of the lecture. Click here for a PDF of the lecture. https://ayadakhtar.com/philip-roth-text daily 0.75 2021-11-04 https://ayadakhtar.com/mcneal daily 0.75 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e20da29b090d7292f4cc76d/4f4f174b-8d55-4ec3-906c-6b252e9a9422/Image+3-12-26+at+9.10%E2%80%AFPM.jpeg https://ayadakhtar.com/the-radiancehome daily 1.0 2026-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e20da29b090d7292f4cc76d/09f837c7-56f5-447f-b86c-94ae79fed772/Radiance_cv+%282%29.jpg Home A mysterious accident along a country road sparks an awakening and an investigation in Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and acclaimed novelist Ayad Akhtar’s most daring work yet—a visionary novel of spiritual transformation in an age of fracture. “Simply put, a work of genius. Akhtar explores the nature of memory and of the soul, while the unfolding tale builds tension and anticipation like a whodunit. The Radiance is hard to put down and so original it will linger with me for a long time." — Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water "Bordering at times on the ineffable, The Radiance is a unique and extraordinary reading experience." — Mary Gaitskill, The Devil’s Treasure When a hit-and-run shatters more than his body, a writer is caught between revelation and madness as an uncanny pull toward a brilliant campus colleague ensnares him in a scandal that threatens to destroy them both. What begins as a provocative portrait of academic and cultural warfare deepens into erotic entanglement, the exposure of a family secret, and the mystery surrounding the narrator’s accident—both the violence and its aftermath. Moving between rural America and Europe, Islam and Christianity, the intimate and the metaphysical, The Radiance is of our American moment and beyond it—asking not only what has broken, but what radiance remains. RELEASE DATE - SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 PRE-ORDER THE BOOK Ayad Akhtar will be touring cross-country in support of The Radiance.