Grove at Home: January 17-23

…Mirren and McCann’s splendid performances. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l0RUKe98uU   Roxane Gay on reproductive freedom Today marks the 48th anniversary of the US Supreme Court’s historic decision in Roe v. Wade, which established…

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…

Mezzanine

“A very funny book . . . Its 135 pages probably contain more insight into life as we live it today than anything currently on the best-seller list.” —The New…

World Made by Hand

“Far from a typical post-apocalyptic novel. It caters neither to a pseudo-morbid nor faddishly slick vision of the future. Though grim with portent, it is ultimately, as Camus’s novel The…

Witches on the Road Tonight

“Holman is a master of the miniature. She uses tiny, achingly accurate details to bring each moment to life on the page; her sentences sing. . . . This richly…

Vietnam Plays Vol 2 [Streamers]

Berlin in Lights

“What distinguishes his diary is Kessler’s distanziert tone–its elegance, precision and shrewdness. The man who brought his gifts of mind to bear on the tragic carnival of his era was…

There’s a Riot Going On

“Fascinating . . . There’s a Riot Going On [is] a step toward drawing a distinction between the fanatic and the visionary, the image and the substance.”—Zachary Lazar, Los Angeles…

A Storm in Flanders

A reissue from the bestselling author of Forrest Gump, A Storm in Flanders is a fascinating history of the four-year battle of Ypres, the most notorious and dreaded place in…

Purge

“A bravura work, deeply engaged with [Estonia’s] knotted history, sparing but potent in its use of irony, and containing an empathic treatment of all the miserable choices Estonians faced during…