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Book Review: “Small Things Like These” — Resisting Cruelty

Claire Keegan’s novella expertly shows how the culture of idle talk in certain Irish communities is like a secret code — an intricate language that both obscures and reveals.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Claire Keegan, Grove-Press, Ireland, Irish Literature, Lucas Spiro, Small Things Like These

Book Review: “Animalia” — ‘Taint a Fit World for Man or Beast

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo has written a marvelous novel in the naturalistic mode that explores how the lives of humans and animals are both interdependent and in conflict — it is not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach.

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Animalia, Grove-Press, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Thomas Filbin

Book Review: “The Western Wind” — A Magisterial Murder Mystery

The Western Wind turns out to be a beautifully written novel, a serious book of great depth, intention, and craft.

By: Katharine Coldiron Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Grove-Press, Katharine Coldiron

Poetry Review: The Devolution of Eileen Myles

One of the fears of poets and, I imagine, all writers, is that you’ll reach a certain age and you’ll run out of gas.

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Ed Meek, Eileen Myles, evolution, Grove-Press, Poetry

Book Review: “Convenience Store Woman” — Selling on Empty

Convenience Store Woman is an achievement — a satiric look at a mind that is intent on remaining empty.

By: Grace Perri Barnes Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Convenience Store Woman, Grace Perri Barnes, Grove-Press, Japanese fiction, Sayaka Murata

Fuse Book Review: An Uneven “Bottomland”

Perhaps in the future Michelle Hoover will let her very real talent take her into the unknown, where narrative and myth merge.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Black Cat, Bottomland, Grove-Press, Michele Hoover

Book Review: “Liberty’s First Crisis” — Oddballs to the Rescue

Liberty’s First Crisis presents reminders that elected officials have always been capable of uncivilized behavior toward their colleagues.

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: 1798 Sedition Act, Blake Maddux, Charles Slack, free speech, Grove-Press, John Adams, Liberty's First Crisis, Thomas Jefferson

Fuse Book Review: Living Well is not the Same as Being Good—Jim Harrison’s “The Ancient Minstrel”

Jim Harrison’s prose is gorgeous, illuminating. The simple language slides into your head and resonates there.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Grove-Press, Jim Harrison, novella, Ted Kehoe, The Ancient Minstrel

Book Review: “Death by Water” — Imagination, Masterfully Redeemed

Death By Water plumbs the depths of the human condition in an entirely original way.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Death by Water, Grove-Press, Japanese fiction, Kenzaburo Oe, nobel-prize-for-literature, translation

Book Review: Samuel Beckett’s “Echo’s Bones” — Anticipation of Masterpieces to Come

Echo’s Bones is a fascinating immersion, somewhat inept in its means, but sincere and gravely serious, in a subject that Samuel Beckett made increasingly his own.

By: Robert Scanlan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Echo's Bones, Grove-Press, Robert Scanlan, samuel-beckett, Theater II

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