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Grove at Home: May 17—23

…Covid-19 pandemic. “Americans now risk replicating the crimes and errors of a century ago,” Thompson writes. An urgent, worthwhile read. “While some pundits extol the virtue of strong government (i.e.,…

Celebrate Banned Books Week by… reading banned books!

Every year, the last week of September is officially Banned Books Week. As the American Library Association—who promote the annual campaign, along with Amnesty International—explain on their website, BBW “brings…

Pride Month Reads

American history, exciting and uplifting. Night Beast / Ruth Joffre A masterful collection from an important new voice in American fiction, Night Beast is profoundly original, gorgeous. These doomed love…

Father’s Day Reads: The Naturalist

…to be the greatest science book ever published. The Eternal Frontier / Tim Flannery The unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the…

Browsing the Backlist: Six Quintessential Earth Day Reads

…outdoors in all its glory and exasperation. With chapters ranging from a reconsideration of the Great American Lawn, a dispatch from one man’s war with a woodchuck, to an essay…

“Do they know about Martin Luther King?”: from the epilogue of Charles Kaiser’s 1968 in America, newly published this month in a thirtieth anniversary edition

…that street corner on April 4, 1968—words so powerful, they kept their city peaceful while a hundred and thirty others would burst into flame. Bobby Kennedy was on his way…

This Halloween, Read Spooky!

…Friday, 1612, deep in the woods of Lancashire, England, a gathering of thirteen is interrupted by the local magistrate. With two of their coven already imprisoned for witchcraft, all eyes…

Grove at Home: May 16-22

…Plain’), rarely has such a small body of work transformed so much. When it appeared in 1955, ‘Pedro Paramo’ shook the foundations of Latin American literature, then marked (with obvious…

Grove at Home: August 9—15

…glad to see Fried’s vision of one of the most memorable hot dogs in all literature, fashioned by John Kennedy Toole. “A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, 1980:…

Grove at Home: July 12—18

…acclaimed, Palestine Book Award-winning debut novel The Parisian, British author Isabella Hammad traveled to Denmark for the Louisiana Literature Festival (no, Americans, not that Louisiana), where she sat down with…