Vietnam Plays Vol 1 [Basic Training]

The House of Morgan

“As a portrait of finance, politics, and the world of avarice and ambition on Wall Street, the book has the movement and tension of an epic novel. It is, quite…

Killing Dragons

“Excellent popular history, with its proper share of mad dogs and Englishmen. . . . dramatic and masterful.” –Anthony Brandt, National Geographic Adventure…

Vernon God Little

“A dangerous, smart, ridiculous, and very funny first novel . . . Pierre renders adolescence brilliantly, capturing with seeming effortlessness the bright, contradictory hormone rush of teenage life.” —Sam Sifton,…

Grove at Home: March 14-20

…Betrayal, the episode tells a story of erotic perfidy between two best friends, and, like the play, it does so in a timeline that moves backward, from end to beginning,…

Grove at Home: January 24-30

…best bet at getting the “Karl Marx quoted in Men’s Health” square on your bingo card filled in anytime soon. “The great virtue of walking as a serious pursuit is…

10 Scandalous Facts About the 1958 Novel Candy

Today marks the publication of our 60th anniversary edition of Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg’s Candy. Originally published in 1958, the book is now a counter-culture classic about whose publication…

Murphy

“The humor and tragedy of Murphy’s search for his own self has been set down in the brilliant, highly individual style that also distinguishes Beckett’s more recent work. The dialogue…

I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On

“A rich anthology . . . . An exemplary introduction to the world of Beckett.” –Mel Gussow, Newsday…

The Voices

“A reader can feel [Elderkin’s] human characters being ripped from the earth, a reader can feel the children being ripped form their parent, and a reader with a good ear…