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Grove at Home: July 26—August 1

…was the New Yorker. Re-reading it today, the story, “Found Wanting,” is as rich and moving as ever. “I was ashamed of my glasses. They were the cheapest of government-subsidized…

Madame Chiang Kai-shek

by Laura Tyson Li

“Madame Chiang Kai-Shek belongs with Eleanor Roosevelt and Eva Peron as three of the most politically influential women of the past century.” —Deirdre Donahue, USA Today

Salvage

by Tom Stoppard

“A Dickensian portrait of the fractious émigré community.” —Michael Billington, Guardian (UK)…

Tropic of Capricorn

by Henry Miller

“Miller has once and for all blasted away the very foundation of human hypocrisy–moral, social, and political. . . . The grandest passages are the scenes of lovemaking. They join…

Lovers for a Day

by Ivan Klíma

“Klíma is simply not read widely enough in the U.S. . . . A master of the significant detail–telling only that which is essential.” –Brad Hooper, Booklist…

Transforming Leadership

by James MacGregor Burns

“Harvesting vignettes from American and world history and reading them in light of new sociological and psychological research, [Burns’] latest book aims to put “transforming leadership” at the core of…

Grove at Home: October 18—24

…birthday of Nick Tosches Today would have been the 71st birthday of Nick Tosches, the craggily brilliant author of Hellfire — a book about Jerry Lee Lewis widely considered, in…

Grove at Home: August 23—29

…has a lot of fans — and today is a very big day for all of them. That’s because today we’re releasing Helen’s new book, Vesper Flights. It’s a collection…

Grove at Home: July 19—25

…fifty-six today. Celebrated around the world for her assured prose, off-kilter sensibility, and fearless approach to describing both the mundane and the unusual with eloquent simplicity, Yoshimoto — whose pen…

The Shrine at Altamira

by John L'Heureux

‘mesmerizing . . . a powerful and affecting story about love’s most anguished and disturbing permutations.” –Timothy Hunter, Cleveland Plain Dealer…