Grove at Home: October 11—17

…and — true to form — pausing to pick up, and wonder at, a discarded wood pigeon egg. Give it a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LLFg3NPk2U&feature=youtu.be Booksellers need your help! The American…

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

…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

…elegant and beautiful. It may have been the best speech any Kennedy ever gave; it was certainly one of the most remarkable speeches any American has ever given. It would…

Spring Titles Coming Soon to Grove Atlantic

…as people seek to reinvent themselves in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. The American Game by S.L. Price Coming out 5/20. Nearly a millennium ago,…

Spooky Halloween Reads

…American folklore for the WPA, the spell of his mother’s unorthodox life is violently disrupted, and Eddie is inspired to pursue a future beyond the confines of his dead-end town….

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