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…

Act of the Damned

“An exhilarating cacophony of conflicting voices . . . The fury of its rhetoric takes on all but irresistible momentum.” –Kirkus Reviews…

Let’s Put the Future Behind Us

“Remarkable . . . Mr. Womack has enmeshed his character in a Moscow landscape as absurd and scary as the phantasmagoric Moscow in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. ….

Pigeons

“[Blechman’s] playful exploration of what some city-dwellers refer to as ‘rats with wings’ takes him to some surprising places . . . [and] along the way, he meets a colorful…

Chasing Kangaroos

“Australian scientist/conservationist/explorer Flannery (The Weather Makers, 2006, etc.) tells the remarkable story of underappreciated marsupials thriving Down Under. . . . Quite exhaustive, fired by boundless exuberance that leaps off…

The Delusions of Crowds

The Coming of the Night

“The question Rechy asks is still potent: Would you die for sex? Rechy’s sizzling literary response . . . is as exciting as it is chilling.” –Pamela Warrick, Los Angeles…

The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941

The dramatic, untold story of how the American Army was mobilized from scattered outposts two years before Pearl Harbor into the disciplined and mobile fighting force that helped win World…

Grove at Home: May 30-June 5

…the Chinese Exclusion Act, the internment of Japanese Americans, the colonization of the Philippines, the annexation of Hawaii, the often forgotten presence of Korean and Indian immigrants in the early…

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…