The Delusions of Crowds

Grove at Home: May 30-June 5

…space for us to know we belong to a community in which we are embraced for who we are.” Continue reading…   Tuesday, June 1 Remembering Charlie Wilson Today would…

Grove at Home: November 22-28

…left behind more complex legacies — or more stunning writing — than the controversial, and undeniably brilliant, Yukio Mishima, who died by seppuku fifty years ago today, after leading an…

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: October 11—17

…craft and calibration,” NPR wrote that it was “electrifying,” and it was named a New York Times Editors’ Pick and a USA Today Notable Book and nominated for the Booker…

Grove at home: August 16—22

…and more. Today, while Jackson remains as difficult a figure to approach as ever, Thomas’s essay still finds away, seeing in the singer a reflection of the older brother who…

Grove at Home: June 28—July 4

…Vietnamese people as humanity, pure and simple.” Listen in… Wednesday, July 1 Sophy Roberts’s The Lost Pianos of Siberia is coming next month! Today being July 1, we can now…

Browsing the Backlist: Six Quintessential Earth Day Reads

Happy Earth Day! Today we’ve selected a few backlist titles that inspire us to join in celebrating—and protecting—the environment. Some of these books encounter particular humans in nature, like Carol…

Light

“Richly detailed . . . Elphinstone takes genuine pleasure in her imagined reality. . . . She bestows on all her characters strengths and flaws, creating a remarkably convincing reality….

Trace Elements

A woman’s cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Guido Brunetti to uncover a threat to the entire region in Donna Leon’s haunting twenty-ninth Brunetti novel