Michael Chabon Books

Our story begins on the move, amid the dust and blood of caravan tracks that snake through the Khazar Empire. Amram and Zelikman have long abandoned the promise of stable lives, choosing instead the freedom—and peril—of perpetual motion. They earn their bread through deceit and swordplay, selling mi...

From Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure

The arrival of Filaq transforms a tale of wandering into a tale of destiny. When Amram and Zelikman encounter this pale, defiant youth, they see at first only trouble—a rich boy on the run, propelled by vengeance and grief. Filaq claims lineage from the royal house of Khazaria, overthrown by treache...

From Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure

It begins in the dim light of a hospice room, where my grandfather, suspended between lucidity and pain, begins to speak. His words are fragments of history and confession, seemingly random but achingly precise. As his grandson, I listen and try to catch each memory before it fades. The framing of t...

From Moonglow

As a boy growing up in Philadelphia, my grandfather was enthralled by the mechanics of the universe. Machines and equations were his language of wonder. He built model rockets with salvaged parts, studied the trajectory of the moon, and imagined reaching beyond ordinary constraints. This was not mer...

From Moonglow

Brokeland Records is not simply a store—it's a sanctuary dedicated to keeping alive the warmth and tactility of music you can hold in your hands. For Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe, it stands as both business and brotherhood, a fragile enterprise sustained by their passion for rare soul tracks and ja...

From Telegraph Avenue: A Novel

Archy and Nat live their partnership within a lattice of shared taste and difference. Archy, African American, carries a history shaped by fathers who left too soon and dreams hijacked by circumstance. Nat, Jewish and equally obsessive about records, fights his own inner battles—the anxious heartbea...

From Telegraph Avenue: A Novel