Grove at Home: July 5—11

…Chinese, Japanese, Sanskrit, and European languages, Suzuki became legendary as perhaps the key figure in introducing European and American audiences to centuries of thought in the Zen and Shin Buddhist…

Celebrate Women in Translation Month with Grove Atlantic

…Murata / Translated from Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child. Working in a convenience store, she finds a predictable world mandated by…

Convenience Store Woman Captivates the New Yorker, NPR’s Fresh Air, the New York Times, and more

In Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata has written a bewitching portrayal of contemporary Japan, taking a sharp and timely look at the pressure to conform. Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori,…

Books to Read on Earth Day

…kind, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth…

Books to Read During Women in Translation Month

…have put together a list of books written by women that have been translated from Japanese, Finnish, French, Icelandic, and more. Try a humorous short story collection of the weird…

Orbital

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize–winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the…

Zen Poetry

Asia Hand

“Navigating Bangkok’s dark side streets and myriad underground cultures requires keen insight as well as the courage to look at corruption but see the hope that lies beneath. Vincent Calvino,…

Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness

“[A] remarkable book. . . . Oe is a supremely gifted writer (and fortunate in having found Nathan as a translator.)” –Ivan Gold, The Washington Post…

The Anniversary

Longlisted for the Stella Prize For fans of Lisa Halliday and Susan Choi, The Anniversary is a simmering page-turner about an ascendant writer, the unresolved death of her husband, and…