Reading Black History Month
February is Black History Month! An excellent time to celebrate Black writing, Black authors, and the innumerable literary contributions of folks from Black and…
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“If you ask me what I want, I’ll tell you. I want everything.” ―Kathy Acker
We’ve kept pretty busy this year, publishing a mix of books we’re tremendously proud of: fiction and history, poetry and journalism, translations, debuts, reissues…
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Preparing for Yan Lianke’s blistering new book, The Day the Sun Died
As 2018 begins winding down, we can look back and say that it’s been, in some ways, the Year of Yan Lianke, hailed aptly…
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Remembering Amiri Baraka, on his 84th birthday
Today would have been the eighty-fourth birthday of Amiri Baraka — legendary poet, playwright, critic, activist, and troublemaker of radical distinction, from whose fifty-plus…
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Celebrate Banned Books Week by… reading banned books!
Every year, the last week of September is officially Banned Books Week. As the American Library Association—who promote the annual campaign, along with Amnesty…
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Three books by Banana Yoshimoto, out in Grove paperback for the first time!
Banana Yoshimoto is the internationally bestselling author of Kitchen and numerous other books — and this week, we were pleased to publish three of them as…
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Published in 1964, and again today: Jean Genet’s The Thief’s Journal, with a new intro by Patti Smith
Today, we’re exhilarated to be republishing Jean Genet’s The Thief’s Journal, the iconic book that launched its author into the firmament of avant-stardom, complete with…
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Celebrate Women in Translation Month with Grove Atlantic
August is Women in Translation Month—a perfect time to feature the following stellar literature-in-translation list, which we suggest you enjoy all year long. From…
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Full Service by Scotty Bowers is Now a Documentary: Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
A few years ago we published Full Service, a “shocking exposé” (The New York Post) in which Scotty Bowers revealed his sexually free-spirited history…
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10 Scandalous Facts About the 1958 Novel Candy
Today marks the publication of our 60th anniversary edition of Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg’s Candy. Originally published in 1958, the book is now…
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