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This Halloween, Read Spooky!

…of Voltaire’s Candide that’s not scary at all! Candy is a lusty romp of a story centered around the impossibly sweet Candy Christian. Candy is a wide-eyed, luscious, all-American girl…

Remembering Amiri Baraka, on his 84th birthday

…under the name LeRoi Jones. After appearing in Donald Allen’s groundbreaking anthology The New American Poetry 1945—1960, which we published in 1960 (and re-released in an updated edition in 1982),…

Three books by Banana Yoshimoto, out in Grove paperback for the first time!

…respected authors, telling unconventional-yet-grounded stories in an elegantly direct style. With N.P., Lizard, and Amrita at last available from Grove in paperback, her work awaits discovery by its largest American…

10 Scandalous Facts About the 1958 Novel Candy

…under the pen name Maxwell Kenton to protect the American authors in France from deportation. 6.) The original U.S. publisher decreed that if a pirated edition appeared, the authors would…

Reading in Honor of World Refugee Day

…lend their voices to the theme and what it means to build, leave, return to, lose, and love a home. How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone / Sasa Stanisic For…

Father’s Day Reads: The Historian

…Hawk Down author Mark Bowden’s most ambitious work yet, Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in…

John Rechy and Roxane Gay Among Winners at 2018 Lambda Literary Awards

…sexual underground of the 1970s, we offer you a wealth of reading from the writer called by Gore Vidal “one of the few original American writers of the last century.”…

Charles Kaiser, author of 1968 in America, on the return of Bob Dylan

…us had worshiped him when he used nothing but a harmonica and an acoustic guitar to become the most important American folk singer of modern times. That was the way…

Maureen Corrigan on Michelle Dean’s Sharp

…one foot in the mainstream of the American intellectual culture that men made, and one foot outside, sometimes by their own decision, and sometimes not. And each one of them,…