Grove at Home: October 18—24

…Book of the Week by People. When we published her latest, the essay collection Vesper Flights, this summer, it was immediately recognized as a landmark work, debuting on the Times…

Grove at Home: September 6—12

…to publish sexually explicit books like his classic novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover is widely understood to lie at the core of free speech protections. Here’s a promotional clip from the…

“If you ask me what I want, I’ll tell you. I want everything.” ―Kathy Acker

…Val McDermid A mysterious bog body leads investigators on a chase through a web of deception and criminality in the latest from one of the most internationally acclaimed authors of…

Preparing for Yan Lianke’s blistering new book, The Day the Sun Died

…something of an unlikely standard-bearer for world protest literature. And yet, increasingly, that’s exactly what he is — a role likely only to be bolstered by his latest work to…

Father’s Day Reads: The Detective

…its aspects: history and tourism, high culture and the changing seasons, food and family, but also violent crime and political corruption. In About Face, her latest mystery, Leon returns to…

Remembrance Day

Solitary

The extraordinary saga of a man who, despite spending four decades in solitary confinement for a crime of which he was innocent, inspired fellow prisoners, and now all of us,…

The Children’s Hospital

“Chris Adrian is a novelist, a doctor, a philosopher, a literary explorer, the humble clear-eyed prophet of our time. . . . The genius of his writing lies in its…

The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman

“A bona fide literary event.” –Newsweek…

Within the Context of No Context

“The writing in this book is so extraordinary. It is as if George Trow had dived down in some deep sea and had taken only the most rare, the most…