THE COLLABORATORS
2024 • Mystery/Thriller • Scribner
“What the ever expanding world of espionage fiction needs, it turns out, is a Yale-educated Millennial field operative who dresses in Weezer t-shirts. . . A novel as cool as it is accomplished, that knits together action, tradecraft and quippy dialogue with flair." —Vogue
DRESSED UP FOR A RIOT
2018 • Memoir • Farrar, Straus & Giroux
"Idov is fascinating and extremely funny and it's a great pleasure to accompany him on his adventures in modern day Russia." — Joe Weisberg, creator and executive producer of The Americans
MADE IN RUSSIA
2011 • Design • Rizzoli
"A vital field guide to the peculiar tribe. With archival photographs and essays by America’s favorite Russians—Komar, Shteyngart, Idov (the editor of the volume)—“Made in Russia” explicates the meaning behind dozens of consumer objects popular in the U.S.S.R.— collapsible drinking cups, electric hair dryers, Sputnik—the pride of the superpower." — The New Yorker
GROUND UP
2009 • Novel • Farrar, Straus & Giroux
“A fiercely funny yet frequently touching novel about the nightmare that the American dream can become . . . strikes all the right chords—both cultural and emotional. Narrator Mark Scharf and his wife, Nina Liau, decide to open a hip coffeehouse on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Everything that can go wrong will, in a manner both hilarious (the coffeehouse) and poignant (the marriage).” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)