Birth

“Well-researched and engaging . . . Birth is a clever, almost irreverent look at an enduring everyday miracle. (A-)” —Entertainment Weekly…

Rez Life

A celebrated Native American novelist’s intimate, insider exploration of the history of Indian reservations and contemporary life on the rez….

A Lily of the Field

…to 1948, John Lawton’s brilliant novel A Lily of the Field follows the loosely parallel lives of cellist Meret Voytek and physicist Karel Szabo at a pivotal moment in history….

Grove at Home: May 23-29

…had received a Nobel nomination back in 1996. Since it was first awarded, in 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature had been given to writers of poetry, short stories, novels,…

Grove at Home: January 17-23

…run-off election for US senator had been counted, it was officially declared that Raphael Warnock would be the eleventh Black senator in US history. In this Sunday’s New York Times…

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…

Crown & Sceptre

On the eve of Queen Elizabeth II’s historic 70th anniversary on the throne, Tracy Borman’s sweeping narrative of the British monarchy illuminates one of history’s most iconic and enduring legacies

Vietnam Plays Vol 1 [Basic Training]

Yonder Stands Your Orphan

“A literary event . . . A new voice of the South whose characters roamed as far as Asia and who were citizens of modern anxiety. . . . A…

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…