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Endpapers

by Alexander Wolff

A sweeping portrait of the turmoil of the twentieth century and the legacy of immigration, as seen through the German-American family of the celebrated book publisher Kurt Wolff

The Everlasting Stream

by Walt Harrington

“A familiar American story, beautifully told in a fresh light. We need to hear this story again and again, until, like Harrington, we realize that most of what we need…

Pedro Páramo

by Juan Rulfo

Now an original Netflix film, directed by Rodrigo Prieto, cinematographer of Killers of the Flower Moon The highly influential masterpiece of Latin American literature, now published in a new, authoritative…

The Big One

by David Kinney

“The Big One is a rollicking true story of a grand American obsession. You don’t have to be a fisherman to relish David Kinney’s marvelous account of the annual striper…

Storming Heaven

by Jay Stevens

“Fascinating . . . The most compelling account yet of how these hallucinogenic, or psychedelic, drugs became an explosive force in postwar American history.” –Newsweek…

Two-Step Devil

by Jamie Quatro

…From a New York Times Notable “writer of great originality” comes a bold new novel about love, faith and two societal outsiders whose lives converge in the contemporary American South…

The Broken King

by Michael Thomas

…of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award—comes a deeply personal memoir of race, trauma, alcoholism, parenting, mental illness and ultimately hope in a portrait of three generations of Black American men…

Lincoln Alone

by Ed Achorn

From award-winning Lincoln expert Edward Achorn, the vivid, behind-the-scenes story of one of the most consequential periods in American history—Abraham Lincoln’s first 120 days as president

Grove at Home: March 7-13

…of Jack Kerouac, the “father of the Beat Generation,” a novelist and poet whose outsize impact continues to be felt in all corners of American writing. 99 may be the…

Grove at Home: November 29-December 5

…David Rabe and Kenneth Lonergan on the state of American theater For insights into American theater, you couldn’t do much better than to listen to David Rabe and Kenneth Lonergan….