Books to Read on Earth Day

…kind, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth…

Books to Read During Women in Translation Month

…have put together a list of books written by women that have been translated from Japanese, Finnish, French, Icelandic, and more. Try a humorous short story collection of the weird…

Grove at Home: May 23-29

…To celebrate, here’s the sublime trio of Myrna Loy, William Powell, and the fox terrier Asta in W.S. Van Dyke’s pre-Code film adaptation of Hammett’s The Thin Man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9cnYeFFeC4  …

Grove at Home: January 17-23

…together / Code the world with the fugitive light.” Happy weekend, friends! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXdwvDjxOkM   Thursday, January 21 There’s certainly something big in the air today. As we all stay glued…

Father’s Day Reads: The Technologist

…to his first novel, searching for a form that will express the world as it has become. Pop-up ads, search results, web chats, snippets of conversation, lines of code, and…

Win $1000 for reading and writing about one of the most exciting novels of the twenty-first century

Fourteen years in the writing, and 1664 pages in length, theMystery.doc is one of the most unusual novels ever published, combining photographs, pop-up ads, web chats, lines of code with…

Freeman’s: Change

Featuring thrilling new work from Lauren Groff, Ocean Vuong, Rickey Laurentiis, and more, the latest installment of the acclaimed literary journal Freeman’s explores the hope and pain of the ever-changing…

Asia Hand

“Navigating Bangkok’s dark side streets and myriad underground cultures requires keen insight as well as the courage to look at corruption but see the hope that lies beneath. Vincent Calvino,…

Zen Poetry

The Subterraneans

“Each book by Kerouac is unique, a telepathic discord. Such rich, natural writing is nonpareil in the later twentieth century.” —Allen Ginsberg…