What I've been reading, what I'm reading

I'm reading The Intuitionist, by Colson Whitehead. It's an odd novel set in a universe in which elevators seem to be the highest form of technology, and there are disputes between two schools of inspectors, the Intuitionists and the Empiricists. Lila Mae Watson, the city's first female black inspector, is being framed for an elevator crash designed to show up the Intuitionists.

It's kind of a whodunit about a search for lost blueprints from a visionary Intuitionist designer, with thugs and spys. I'm not sure I get all the subtext, but it's interesting.