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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Charles Kaiser on Aretha Franklin
This spring, Grove Atlantic published the thirtieth anniversary edition of 1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation, Charles Kaiser’s…
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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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Pride Month Reads
Happy Pride! As the country parades and parties in celebration of LGBTQ+ culture and rights this month, we’re revisiting a selection of the outstanding…
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Convenience Store Woman Captivates the New Yorker, NPR’s Fresh Air, the New York Times, and more
In Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata has written a bewitching portrayal of contemporary Japan, taking a sharp and timely look at the pressure to…
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