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Grove at Home: May 24—30

…The Destiny of Me, and a number of other works, has died at the age of eighty-four. Larry was perhaps the most recognizable AIDS activist in the world — a…

Browsing the Backlist: Memorial Day Reads

…forefront of that revolution: the daredevil Americans of the Lafayette Escadrille, who flew in French planes, wore French uniforms, and showed the world an American brand of heroism before the…

Late City

by Robert Olen Butler

A 115-year-old man lies on his deathbed as the 2016 election results arrive, and revisits his life in this moving story of love, fatherhood, and the American century from Pulitzer…

Woodcuts of Women

by Dagoberto Gilb

‘dagoberto Gilb is an important voice in American fiction. These stories of working class, low-rent lives illuminated by the small pleasures of sex and drink and food and sleep and…

The Wonder Garden

by Lauren Acampora

A keen and brilliant observer of the strangeness that is American suburbia. Acampora joins the ranks of writers like John Cheever and Tom Perrotta in her incisive portrait of lives…

Storming Heaven

by Jay Stevens

“Fascinating . . . The most compelling account yet of how these hallucinogenic, or psychedelic, drugs became an explosive force in postwar American history.” –Newsweek…

The Raymond Chandler Papers

by Tom Hiney

“Chandler, the premiere practictioner of the American hard-boiled detective novel, elevated the wisecrack into a rhetorical figure somewhere between sarcasm and simile. For the Chandler fan, The Raymond Chandler Papers…

A Place to Stand

by Jimmy Santiago Baca

…me of the rawness of George Orwell combined with the human exuberance of Neruda’s memoirs. . . . This book will have a permanent place in American letters.” —Jim Harrison…

Pedro Páramo

by Juan Rulfo

Soon to be an original film coming to Netflix in Fall 2024, directed by Rodrigo Prieto, cinematographer of Killers of the Flower Moon The highly influential masterpiece of Latin American

Over Time

by Frank Deford

“Equal doses of self-deprecating humor and anecdotal history of American sports journalism are the essence of Frank Deford’s entertaining new memoir.” —Chicago Tribune…