Grove at Home: May 23-29

…had received a Nobel nomination back in 1996. Since it was first awarded, in 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature had been given to writers of poetry, short stories, novels,…

Grove at Home: January 17-23

…run-off election for US senator had been counted, it was officially declared that Raphael Warnock would be the eleventh Black senator in US history. In this Sunday’s New York Times…

Father’s Day Reads: The Technologist

…to his first novel, searching for a form that will express the world as it has become. Pop-up ads, search results, web chats, snippets of conversation, lines of code, and…

Win $1000 for reading and writing about one of the most exciting novels of the twenty-first century

…desires. A panel of three eminent judges – literary critic David Ulin, literary agent Susan Golomb, and independent bookseller Rick Simonson (Elliott Bay Book Company) – will review the entries…

Carry Me Down

“John Egan is a brave, resourceful boy, intelligent and self-aware, yet skating on the edge of madness. The story of John’s thirteenth year is both sympathetic and disturbing. It is…

Remembrance Day

House Reckoning

When congressional fixer Joe DeMarco finds out the truth about his father’s murder, he must decide how far he will go for revenge….

Shifty’s Boys

Army-CID-officer-cum-unofficial-PI Mick Hardin is up against unforeseen forces who will stop at nothing in this vividly atmospheric thriller from acclaimed novelist Chris Offutt

A Lily of the Field

…to 1948, John Lawton’s brilliant novel A Lily of the Field follows the loosely parallel lives of cellist Meret Voytek and physicist Karel Szabo at a pivotal moment in history….

Solitary

The extraordinary saga of a man who, despite spending four decades in solitary confinement for a crime of which he was innocent, inspired fellow prisoners, and now all of us,…