The Hyphenated American

“[A] memorable volume of collected plays by one of the most hard-working, prolific, talented, tenacious–not to mention incredibly charming–playwrights of our generation.” –Asian Week…

The Great Leader

A black-comic detective novel in the vein of No Country for Old Men, Jim Harrison’s The Great Leader follows a retired detective in hilarious and bold pursuit of a sinister…

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

In this spellbinding and fiercely subversive retelling of the life of Jesus, a best-selling, award-winning writer reimagines the most influential story ever told.

Essays in Zen Buddhism

The Driftless Area

“Drury ties up all the threads (Shane, the fire, Stella) with consummate skill. . . . The bittersweet ending is a perfect mix of light and dark. Drury is a…

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. ….

Big Girls Don’t Cry

“Weldon’s clever comparisons of yesterday’s mores to today’s spice up this bubbling feminist brew, offering a study of the costs and consequences of the idealistic life that is sharp, funny,…

Bongwater

“Bongwater is one of the coolest books of the year. Hornburg explodes the whole grunge mythos by taking it out of the realm of the flash photo spread and giving…

Mantrapped

“In Weldon’s skillful hands, the obsessions of nineties London are picked apart to wonderfully comic effect. . . . If you can just keep up with Weldon’s madcap journey, Mantrapped…

Grove at Home: July 26—August 1

…cover. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=AYbYLL7lLbM&feature=emb_logo   Viet Thanh Nguyen and Pankaj Mishra on free speech Last week in the Guardian, the brilliant Viet Thanh Nguyen and the brilliant Mankaj Mishra sat down for…