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…

Ritual

“Mo Hayder has utterly mastered the art of suspense. Ritual moves from the eerie and dangerous to the downright ferocious as steadily as an oncoming train. Her characters are full,…

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…

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…