The Explorers

How to Fix the Future

As our world continues to be fundamentally changed by the Digital Revolution, this essential book by a leading Internet commentator shows how to preserve the fundamentals of humanity and civilized…

The Parisian

A “sublime” (Zadie Smith) debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man,…

A Personal Matter

“In writing novels there is no substitute for maturity and moral awareness. Kenzaburo Oe has both.” –Alan Levensohn, Christian Science Monitor…

John Rechy’s handwritten edits to City of Night

…stylistically innovative look at the world of hustlers, drag queens, and those in their orbit that still sings and stings today, nearly sixty years after its publication. Originally a controversial…

Grove at Home: March 28-April 3

…Today is National Vietnam War Veterans Day in the US, an occasion first observed by Barack Obama in 2012, and made a recurring annual commemoration by Donald Trump in 2017….

Grove at Home: August 30—September 5

…vault — to say hi, remind you to keep reading, and let you know what’s on our minds.   Friday, September 4 Happy birthday, Carmen Boullosa! Today marks the sixty-fourth…

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…

Reading in Honor of World Refugee Day

…to acknowledge our existence as such and to advocate for the new refugees today. The following titles, which span novels, short fiction, and the literary anthology Freeman’s, center on refugee…