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Grove at Home: August 9—15

…it from the inimitable Steve Martin, who turns seventy-five today! Best known for his hilarious comedy and storied film career, Steve is also an accomplished musician, a bit of a…

Reading Black History Month

…a sublimely delicate touch.”   The Wretched of the Earth / Frantz Fanon / translated by Richard Philcox It is difficult to imagine today’s world without the singular, anti-colonial genius…

Remembering Amiri Baraka, on his 84th birthday

Today would have been the eighty-fourth birthday of Amiri Baraka — legendary poet, playwright, critic, activist, and troublemaker of radical distinction, from whose fifty-plus years of writing we assembled S…

Celebrate Banned Books Week by… reading banned books!

Every year, the last week of September is officially Banned Books Week. As the American Library Association—who promote the annual campaign, along with Amnesty International—explain on their website, BBW “brings…

Reading in Honor of World Refugee Day

Today, World Refugee Day, we honor all those around the world who face displacement, and remain indomitable in the face of it. As Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Refugees…

Curfew

by Jose Donoso

“Beautifully realized and deeply moving.” –The New York Times…

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

by William S. Burroughs

The legendary unpublished collaboration between William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, a hard-boiled crime novel about a shocking murder at the dawn of the Beat Generation.

Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

by Dubravka Ugresic

“[A] strange and wonderful book . . . I couldn’t stop reading. . . . Ugresic is affecting and eloquent . . . [and writes] with earthy grace.” —Mary Gaitskill,…

Homesickness

by Colin Barrett

The second book from the “exact and poetic” (New York Times) author of critical smash Young Skins, winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a National Book Foundation…

Give unto Others

by Donna Leon

Brunetti is forced to confront the price of loyalty, to his past and in his work, as a seemingly innocent request leads him into troubling waters