Grove at Home: November 8-14

…including Wole Soyinka, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and Barack Obama, Sr., and Forna’s powerful gift for shaping narratives and personal connection to the events she’s discussing make for a powerful listening…

Grove at Home: October 25-31

…or your theoretical views or your personal views or whatever and make it real.” Give it a listen — this’ll get the blood pumping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeImNLISMI8   The Carnegie Medal longlist…

Grove at Home: October 18—24

…For the Taking. You will not regret listening to Nick Tosches this morning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71QCTPBamx8&list=PL8BFd4uGHN3nMBiMV6yjlsVOXwslypzMc   Lunch with Nick Tosches in 1999 Also terrific is this 1999 Salon profile of Nick,…

Grove at Home: September 27—October 3

…day to hear the wonderful voice of Jim Harrison. Here he is reading his poem “Counting Birds.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6oYKT3UqDk   Read the National Book Foundation’s Literature for Justice list For the…

Grove at Home: September 20—26

…debut novel, has made the longlist for the National Book Award for Fiction! It’s an utterly remarkable list all around — we’re delighted to see so many brilliant names, including…

9 Must-Read Banned Books

…we are sharing this list of ten Grove books that have been banned throughout their lifetime, as well as a list of resources for those who want to defend books…

Flight of the WASP

Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America’s history.

Remembrance Day

Crossing the Rhine

From one of the world’s leading military historians comes a thrilling and richly detailed account of the two most critical offensives in World War II’s western theater after D-Day—the Allied…

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,…