A Little White Death

“John Lawton is so captivating a storyteller that I’d happily hear him out on any subject. . . . Meticulous artistry . . . The Chekhovian echo brilliantly captures the…

1942

From the author of Forrest Gump and A Storm in Flanders, a riveting chronicle of America’s most critical hour….

Kamchatka

A man recalls his experience as a ten-year-old boy hiding in a safe house during Argentina’s “Dirty War” in this commanding and spellbinding novel from internationally best-selling author Marcelo Figueras….

Rushes

“A major American novelist writing at the peak of his powers.” –Richard Hall, The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review…

Snowblind

“A flat-out ballbuster. It moves like a threshing machine with a fuel tank full of ether. . . . Sabbag is a whip-song writer.” —Hunter S. Thompson…

Grove at Home: May 23-29

…Santiago Baca reading his poem “A Desire,” included in his book Singing at the Gates, against a stunning natural landscape. What better way to end the week? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxaEsf5MDto Thursday, May…

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…

Vietnam Plays Vol 1 [Basic Training]

Woodcuts of Women

…of dirty pillows and the scent of “the burning skin of green chile,” of sharp sexual attractions and the hundred intimacies and antagonisms between men and women, are like no…