Grove at Home: December 6-12

…latest, A Cry from the Far Middle, is the perfect gift for your favorite free-thinker. Bringing his trademark (and occasionally cantankerous) wit to bear on the scandals and conundrums of…

For Mother’s Day Read Books on Mothers, Motherhood, and More

…in Kerala, India, and Ropshitz, Poland, to memoirs of mother-and-daughterhood that are both tender and raw, these eight books show the intensity, diversity, and wonder of motherhood across time, culture,…

Good Value

“A remarkable book . . . Stephen Green weaves together his reflections on economics, geopolitics, history, philosophy, literature, and religion against the background of the current crisis. Deeply challenging as…

Time to Start Thinking

“This is a book that will transform the way you think of this country.” —Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lords of Finance…

The Breaking of Nations

“Essentially an attempt to bridge the ideological divide between hard and soft power. Both, he suggests in this short, elegant collection of essays, are necessary in today’s messy world.” –The…

The Yoga Teacher

“Funny and incisive . . . smart, stylish, and one of a kind.” —Candace Bushnell…

T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E.

“Shakur produces a visceral and strikingly real portrayal of gang life in Los Angeles, replete with sudden and inexplicable violence, revenge, betrayal, ostentatious living, racism, the strong arm of law…

Levi’s Children

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…

Contact Wounds

From the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times Notable Book, The Dressing Station, comes an electrifying memoir of a doctor’s education in the classroom and on the battlefield….