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The Deserter’s Tale

by Joshua Key

“Destined to become part of the literature of the Iraq war . . . Key’s clear voice rings out . . . with anguish and a frankness that invests the…

Grove at home: August 16—22

…pundits and pollsters called the 2016 presidential election wrong, one man — American University history professor Allan J. Lichtman — called it right. In fact, Lichtman, using a system of…

Grove at Home: May 17—23

…whom, last I heard, she was fighting with. She fixes me with a blank stare. ‘I’d leave,’ she says, ‘if I had more money…’” Continue reading…   “At age three,…

The Risk of Infidelity Index

by Christopher G. Moore

“When Americans discover Christopher G. Moore, they’re going to strip the bookstores bare of his work. The Risk of Infidelity Index is taut, spooky, intelligent, and beautifully written.” —T. Jefferson…

The Wild Boys

by William S. Burroughs

“In Burroughs’ hands, writing reverts to acts of magic, as though he were making some enormous infernal encyclopedia of all the black impulses and acts that, once made, would shut…

In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd

by Ana Menéndez

“Powerful . . . stories that not only convey the bittersweet mood of exile but also give us a wonderful gallery of idiosyncratic characters whose lives overlap to create a…

The Zanzibar Chest

by Aidan Hartley

“An extraordinary and heartbreaking book, the finest account of a war correspondent’s psychic wracking since Michael Herr’s Dispatches, and the best white writing from Africa in many, many years.” —Rian…

All Joe Knight

by Kevin Morris

An audacious debut novel set in hardscrabble Philadelphia about an orphan named Joe and the basketball team that raised him—a team that also has the power to be his undoing….

Eden

by Olympia Vernon

“Daring [and] explosively supernatural. . . . [Eden is] a startling reminder of how forceful Southern magic can be.” –The New York Times Book Review…

Faggots

by Larry Kramer

“Writing as always from an affirmatively homosexual point of view, Kramer in this novel conveys a sense of premonitory unease, even foreboding, about the spread of promiscuity, sadomasochism and narcotics…