The Delusions of Crowds

Grove at Home: January 10-16

…their English-language translators, in discussion about their own work, the art of translation, and the literary scene in Japan today. Last week, the JFNY released a video promoting the new…

Grove at Home: December 13-19

…vault — to say hi, remind you to keep reading, and let you know what’s on our minds.   Friday, December 18 Sad but true: today’s will be our last…

Grove at Home: September 20—26

…The crises we face today could not have been foreseen more than sixty years ago, when Frank O’Hara wrote his poem “To the Film Industry in Crisis” — indeed, the…

Grove at Home: August 2—August 8

…to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today” — and this is an apt description of the power and moral clarity Oe brought to Democracy Now!, when he…

A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life

…Life Is a Human Life delivers the untold story of everyday activists who won resounding victories in demanding bodily and reproductive autonomy—a history that resonates all the more powerfully today…

The Pleasing Hour

“Splendid . . . Powerful . . . so assured that it’s hard to believe the book is [King’s] debut.” —Jacqueline Carey, The New York Times Book Review…

The Bible

“Karen Armstrong preaches the gospel truth in The Bible, explaining how the spiritual guide for one out of three people on the planet came into being and evolved over the…

Ninety Degrees North

“[A] superb history of the conquest of the North Pole. . . . In Fleming’s vivid prose, their suffering becomes a fable of men driven to extremes by the lust…

A Carnivore’s Inquiry

The spellbinding new book by the winner of the 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award is a gripping, literary psychological thriller about a young woman and a peculiar taste for flesh…