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…

Grove at Home: July 5—11

…in the Chilean Senate, a close friend and advisor to Chilean President Salvador Allende, a professional diplomat whose work brought him to Yangon, Singapore, Colombo, and elsewhere. Neruda’s influence today…

The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett

“Ackerley and Gontarski have amassed an amazing amount of information about Samuel Beckett and his works, which constitutes The Grove Companion. The volume will prove useful to everyone–from the neophyte…

Seven Mile Beach

“Unusual, fast, light, short, suspenseful, meaningful, and filled with an immigrant’s pointed observations about identity and the possibility of changing it. . . . [With an] appealing stench of paranoia…

The Reluctant Sheriff

Master storyteller Chris Offutt’s acclaimed crime series has been praised by Ian Rankin as “righteous Kentucky noir with top notes of Daniel Woodrell and S. A. Cosby,” and in this…

The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez

“A gritty picture of life on the cusp . . . vividly rendered.” —Kirkus Reviews…

The Lost German Slave Girl

“Bailey has the gifts of a novelist and a readiness to blend fact and conjecture . . . with the result that The Lost German Slave Girl reads like a…

Stripper Lessons

“O’Brien handles [his] story with a masterly and subtle art, as her turns the unlikely into the possible without gush or affectation: Like Carroll himself, the change is slow, timid,…

Vietnam Plays Vol 1 [Basic Training]

Tokyo Cancelled

“[This] brilliantly conceived and jauntily delivered first novel . . . harks back to Boccaccio and Chaucer. . . . There is something marvelously primitive about the function of story…