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Welcome to Our 2022 Gift Guide

…— a true crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial system, the trials of adolescence, and the power of the internet. “The lesson of Slenderman is not about tracking…

Grove at Home: November 1-7

…of American voter suppression One factor that has played an unusually dynamic, and deeply troubling, role in the election currently winding down is voter suppression. In the new issue of…

Grove at Home: September 13—19

…ensconced even more firmly in the American national consciousness with Robert Zemeckis’s Oscar-sweeping 1994 screen adaptation, which won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director for Zemeckis, Best Actor for…

The Black Russian

by Vladimir Alexandrov

“In this magnetically appealing, unforgettable biography, Alexandrov . . . [with] assiduous research . . . insightfully and dynamically portrays a singular man.” —Booklist (starred review)…

The Search for the Genuine

by Jim Harrison

The first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling, definitive collection of Jim Harrison’s essays and journalism—some…

Nexus

by Henry Miller

“The Rosy Crucifixion may be Miller’s masterpiece. . . . The trilogy belongs in every American literature collection.” —Choice…

Long Way to Go

by Jonathan Coleman

“Not since Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma has anyone laid bare America’s racial problems with such clarity, insight and drama. Coleman has written a classic.” –Morris Dees, Southern Poverty Law…

The Beat Hotel

by Barry Miles

“An entertaining narrative about important writers now considered American literary heroes.” –Publishers Weekly…

Airships

by Barry Hannah

…most exciting voices of the post-Faulkner generation” (William Styron), Barry Hannah’s triumphant classic Airships is a freewheeling and energetic collection of stories about love, loss, and legacy in the American

Jimmy Santiago Baca

…of the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, the International Hispanic Heritage Award and for his memoir A Place to Stand the prestigious International Award. In 2006 he won the…