WHITES
AUG 2025

“Doten (Trump Sky Alpha) delivers an uncompromising satire of contemporary white supremacy in this bold collection.... Every character is painfully convincing in their anger, condescension, or meekness. It’s a wild and caustic ride.”―Publishers Weekly

“[Doten] pulls just as few punches and experiments just as wildly in this collection of stories that attempt to capture the more demented and dismaying aspects of Americans at one another’s throats and terminally online.”―The Washington Post, “30 Books To Read This Summer”

"Whites is a work of wild genius."―Kimberly King Parsons, author of We Were the Universe

“Doten is a skilled satirist, and this collection matches the disorienting comic tenor of their previous novels, Trump Sky Alpha and The Infernal.”―Emma Alpern, Vulture, “28 Books We Can’t Wait To Read this Summer”

“These venomous, discomforting stories may soon feel “of their time,” but what a time. Imagine the white malaise of Sam Lipsyte and the heightened satire of Gary Shteyngart shot through with a tab of Mark Leyner’s hyperstylized metafiction. Maybe that’s the right frame of mind to ask what white people are really made of, these days. A consciously caustic critique of white fragility that means to leave a mark.”―Kirkus Reviews

“I am forever in awe of Mark Doten, a virtuoso stylist and ventriloquist whose visionary satires are spurred by a moral urgency that marks him as my generation's Bernhard as well our Burroughs. Whites is a pathbreaking brain­deranger―blistering and prescient, sure, but let's not forget funny and dirty and extremely fucking weird.”―Justin Taylor, author of Reboot

“Prescient about our current moment to an unsettling degree, Mark Doten’s Whites pushes satire to its farthest edge, tapping deeply into the id of American society and capturing something truly horrifying and real in the process.”―John Keene, author of Counternarratives

TRUMP SKY ALPHA (2019)

THE INFERNAL (2015)

THE SOURCE (2014)