Grove at Home: December 6-12

…recs before we’re done! The Selected Works of Samuel Beckett, Samuel Beckett Considered by many the single greatest writer of the twentieth century, Samuel Beckett received the 1969 Nobel Prize…

Alif the Unseen

From the author of award-winning graphic novels comes a stunning and propulsive debut novel, blending cyberpunk adventure with the enchantment of Middle Eastern mythology.

The Devil That Danced on the Water

“Powerful. . . . At once impassioned, lucid, and understandably enraged, The Devil That Danced on the Water illuminates the troubled, tragic history of a country and a continent.” —O,…

T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E.

…enforcement, drugs, love and loyalty indistinguishably blurred. . . . Shakur is better than anyone else in the street lit game at making his characters feel like real people, even…

The Adventures of Lucky Pierre

“An embodiment of a spectacle-obsessed entertainment culture that seems horribly like our own. . . . It delivers the ancient narrative satisfaction of seeing a character deal with the inexplicabilities…

The Player

“One of the most wounding and satirical of all Hollywood expos’s: dark and mordant . . . savage. . . . A portrait of life among the high-rollers and deal…

Levi’s Children

The Beholder’s Eye

“Aims to dispel the old journalistic clich”: that a journalist writing about him/herself is always ‘self-indulgent and, quite likely, narcissistic.” He couldn’t have put together a better lineup of writers…

Goodnight, Nobody

“Arresting. Stylistically, Knight slaloms through old-fashioned noir and snarky postmodernism, and from Barthelmean set pieces to a riff on Stonewall Jackson that evokes one of Barry Hannah’s Civil War fever…

Grove at Home: May 30-June 5

…serious book-length biography of blues legend B.B. King, coming from acclaimed author Daniel de Visé this fall. Here — at Daniel’s own recommendation! — is some incredible footage of King…