My Friend the Mercenary

“Intensely vivid story of war and the peculiar breed of warriors who fight in 21st-century Africa. . . A haunting memoir and tribute to an extraordinary comrade-at-arms.” —Kirkus Reviews…

Remembrance Day

Rez Life

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

Carry Me Down

“John Egan is a brave, resourceful boy, intelligent and self-aware, yet skating on the edge of madness. The story of John’s thirteenth year is both sympathetic and disturbing. It is…

An Invisible Spectator

“A gripping page-turner. Sawyer-Lau”anno’s biography is better than brilliant, it is Bowlesian: exhaustively researched and impeccably written.” ––Mark Dery, The Philadelphia Inquirer…

A Lily of the Field

Set in Vienna, London, and the United States, and spanning 1934 to 1948, John Lawton’s brilliant novel A Lily of the Field follows the loosely parallel lives of cellist Meret…

Grove at Home: May 16-22

…and today we’re listening to the classic performance of his beloved song Mr. Tambourine Man that Dylan gave at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeP4FFr88SQ Thursday, May 20 Ian Black…

Grove at Home: April 4-10

…April 8 Happy birthday, Bradford Morrow! Today we’re wishing an exceedingly happy seventieth b-day to the amazing Bradford Morrow! Brad is so many things — the founder and editor of…

Grove at Home: November 1-7

…November 3 It’s Election Day! With tensions running high in all directions, we’d like to offer this, today, as a space to relax and enjoy some media that’ll help get…

Grove at Home: October 25-31

…12:13pm PDT   For Ágota Kristóf’s birthday, read Slavoj Žižek on the authentic ethical naïveté of The Notebook Today would be the eighty-fifth birthday of Ágota Kristóf, the Hungarian-Swiss writer…