Grove at Home: January 17-23

…together / Code the world with the fugitive light.” Happy weekend, friends! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXdwvDjxOkM   Thursday, January 21 There’s certainly something big in the air today. As we all stay glued…

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

Fourteen years in the writing, and 1664 pages in length, theMystery.doc is one of the most unusual novels ever published, combining photographs, pop-up ads, web chats, lines of code with…

Crown & Sceptre

On the eve of Queen Elizabeth II’s historic 70th anniversary on the throne, Tracy Borman’s sweeping narrative of the British monarchy illuminates one of history’s most iconic and enduring legacies

Here They Come

“Murphy flawlessly captures a child’s-eye view of a battered society and a battered family . . . Most impressive of all is [her] remarkable use of language, the expressive way…

Brass

“In Brass, Walsh has created some of literature’s sexiest sex scenes, most out-of-it drug-taking . . . and imagery you won’t easily scrub off the back of your mind. It…

Vietnam Plays Vol 1 [Basic Training]

Bear Me Safely Over

“A gutsy, realistic and lyrical portrait of country people struggling to find meaning in their constricted lives. . . . An affecting narrative that explores the way people accept or…

Yonder Stands Your Orphan

“A literary event . . . A new voice of the South whose characters roamed as far as Asia and who were citizens of modern anxiety. . . . A…

Woodcuts of Women

…of dirty pillows and the scent of “the burning skin of green chile,” of sharp sexual attractions and the hundred intimacies and antagonisms between men and women, are like no…