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Grove at Home: February 7-13
…footage of his October 30, 1947 appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee, where his interrogators included an ambitious first-term Congressperson named Richard Nixon. A refugee from fascism, Brecht had…
Grove at Home: January 17-23
…Americans’ right to access abortion as a Constitutional guarantee. Here, from 2012, is Roxane Gay’s powerful essay “The Alienable Rights of Women,” originally published in The Rumpus. It’s a searing…
Grove at Home: December 13-19
…lessons the Democratic Party can learn from the voting patterns of the Asian-American community — or, perhaps better said, from “enormously diverse” Asian-American communities, since, as Nguyen notes, “the category…
Grove at Home: November 15-21
…Walter Mosley received the National Book Foundation’s 2020 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Today, at Literary Hub, we’re reading his monumental acceptance speech. It’s a moving, powerful piece…
Grove at Home: August 23—29
…It: New fiction from Dantiel W. Moniz Milk Blood Heat, the debut collection from Dantiel W. Moniz — an urgent new voice in American fiction — won’t be out till…
Grove at Home: July 26—August 1
…the troubled, troubling world in which we live. Her life and legacy are the focus of a recent episode of PBS’s “American Masters,” available online through August 30. Watch it…
Grove at Home: June 28—July 4
…the “model minority” myth that has long haunted Asian-American life. It’s a powerful read. “The face of Tou Thao haunts me. The Hmong-American police officer stood with his back turned…
Grove at Home: June 21—27
…Times asked him to turn his reflections into full-fledged review. He did, and it’s a revelation. “‘Da 5 Bloods’ clearly aspires to be a movie that jabs at American racism…
Grove at Home: June 14—20
…place in a context where “the American Vietnam War Movie genre, as the critic Renny Christopher points out, posits the war as a civil war in the American soul. The…
The Gay Metropolis: 50 Years After Stonewall
…world of American film, music, and tv, alongside the gains and reversals in the American court system, Kaiser paints a vivid portrait of this astounding era. In a new final…
