The Player

“One of the most wounding and satirical of all Hollywood expos’s: dark and mordant . . . savage. . . . A portrait of life among the high-rollers and deal…

Grove at Home: May 23-29

…To celebrate, here’s the sublime trio of Myrna Loy, William Powell, and the fox terrier Asta in W.S. Van Dyke’s pre-Code film adaptation of Hammett’s The Thin Man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9cnYeFFeC4  …

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…

The Curse of Oak Island

An investigation into the “curse” of Oak Island, where rumors of buried riches have beguiled treasure hunters over the past two centuries.

Flight of the WASP

Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America’s history.

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…

The Battle of the Tanks

From celebrated military historian Lloyd Clark comes the riveting and richly detailed account of the greatest land battle of all time and a crucial turning point in World War II–the…

Remembrance Day