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Side Man
by Warren Leight…his father, Gene, mother, Terry, and their circle, but also the story of a lost era in American popular music: the rise, decline and fall of the big bands. ….
Peace Kills
by P. J. O'Rourke“Peace Kills is war coverage in the great tradition of Catch 22 and M*A*S*H: Wars can be right or wrong, but they are always crazy and frightening in the center…
Welcome to Our 2022 Gift Guide
…— a true crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial system, the trials of adolescence, and the power of the internet. “The lesson of Slenderman is not about tracking…
Grove at Home: November 1-7
…of American voter suppression One factor that has played an unusually dynamic, and deeply troubling, role in the election currently winding down is voter suppression. In the new issue of…
Grove at Home: September 13—19
…ensconced even more firmly in the American national consciousness with Robert Zemeckis’s Oscar-sweeping 1994 screen adaptation, which won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director for Zemeckis, Best Actor for…
The Black Russian
by Vladimir Alexandrov“In this magnetically appealing, unforgettable biography, Alexandrov . . . [with] assiduous research . . . insightfully and dynamically portrays a singular man.” —Booklist (starred review)…
The Search for the Genuine
by Jim HarrisonThe first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling, definitive collection of Jim Harrison’s essays and journalism—some…
Jimmy Santiago Baca
…of the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, the International Hispanic Heritage Award and for his memoir A Place to Stand the prestigious International Award. In 2006 he won the…
Nexus
by Henry Miller“The Rosy Crucifixion may be Miller’s masterpiece. . . . The trilogy belongs in every American literature collection.” —Choice…
Long Way to Go
by Jonathan Coleman“Not since Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma has anyone laid bare America’s racial problems with such clarity, insight and drama. Coleman has written a classic.” –Morris Dees, Southern Poverty Law…
