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…

Correspondents

“Murphy artfully connects multiple narratives to produce a sprawling tale of love, family, duty, war, and displacement. It is above all a stinging indictment of the ill-fated war in Iraq…

Correspondents

“Murphy artfully connects multiple narratives to produce a sprawling tale of love, family, duty, war, and displacement. It is above all a stinging indictment of the ill-fated war in Iraq…

Surreal Lives

“Surrealism is now associated more with whimsy than with the lacerating and uncanny effects first sought by the French poets who first formulated its principles . . . [Surreal Lives…

The Lost German Slave Girl

“Bailey has the gifts of a novelist and a readiness to blend fact and conjecture . . . with the result that The Lost German Slave Girl reads like a…

Vietnam Plays Vol 1 [Basic Training]

Stripper Lessons

“O’Brien handles [his] story with a masterly and subtle art, as her turns the unlikely into the possible without gush or affectation: Like Carroll himself, the change is slow, timid,…

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…

Grove at Home: April 18-24

…Achievement Award at the Irish Book Awards In 2015, when Donleavy was in his late eighties, he received the Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Irish Book Awards. After a video…

Grove at Home: December 13-19

…been the recipient of honors including the Irish PEN Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the European Prize for Literature, and the bestowal of the title of Saoi by…