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Grove-Press

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

Fuse Book Review: “Caught” — Running Drugs, Harum-Scarum Style

Given all the terror and brutality we have lived through just in the thirteen years of this new, 21st century, the story of people running drugs back in the ’70s doesn’t seem to have much urgency.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Caught, drug heist, Grove-Press, Lisa Moore

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