Orphan Bachelors

CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS GOLD MEDAL WINNER FOR NONFICTION From the bestselling and award-winning author of the novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is an extraordinary…

A Call to Heroism

“This book is a delightful Grand Tour, taking us from war to sports to great literature. You will enjoy it.” —Jay Mathews, Education reporter for The Washington Post…

Worm: the First Digital World War, by Mark Bowden

The fascinating story of the Conficker computer worm and the cyber security elites who have joined forces in a high-tech game of cops and robbers to find its creators and…

The Beholder’s Eye

“Aims to dispel the old journalistic clich”: that a journalist writing about him/herself is always ‘self-indulgent and, quite likely, narcissistic.” He couldn’t have put together a better lineup of writers…

Grove at Home: November 8-14

…release. These aren’t really emotions that can be faked.” Continue reading…   Happy birthday, Harry Hurt III Today marks the 69th birthday of the great Harry Hurt III! A journalist,…

Grove at Home: May 23-29

…27 Happy birthday, Dashiell Hammett! Today marks the 127th birthday of Dashiell Hammett, the author of hard-boiled detective fiction starring enduring characters like Sam Spade and Nick and Norah Charles….

Repetition

Exhibits a sensibility as nervous and contemporary–not to mention witty–as that of any novelist working today. . . . Objects play as dramatic a role in Repetition as do characters….

The Player

“One of the most wounding and satirical of all Hollywood expos’s: dark and mordant . . . savage. . . . A portrait of life among the high-rollers and deal…

Levi’s Children

Convenience Store Woman

The English-language debut of an exciting young voice in international fiction, selling 660,000 copies in Japan alone, Convenience Store Woman is a bewitching portrayal of contemporary Japan through the eyes…