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

…be the 106th birthday of Howard Fast, one of twentieth-century America’s bestselling and most prolific authors. Today Fast is best remembered for his patriotically left-wing politics — which saw him…

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 Inquisitors’ Manual

“Antunes creates voices with a scrupulous, authorial neutrality. . . . He also has created a character in Senhor Francisco . . . as complex in his cunning, blindness, selfishness…

The Divine Husband

“The Divine Husband presents the peculiar crossroads where love and imagination meet politics and history. . . . A great miscegenating carnival of ambition and desire.” —Lee Siegel, The New…

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…

theMystery.doc

…the Internet, and the writing life as they play out in contemporary America and telling the story of a man who wakes up one morning not knowing who he is….

Levi’s Children