We are deeply saddened by the death of AntΓ³nio Lobo Antunes, a brilliant author whose innovative and experimental work often reflected the internal rot of Portuguese colonialism and the ruling class.
We are deeply saddened by the death of AntΓ³nio Lobo Antunes, a brilliant author whose innovative and experimental work often reflected the internal rot of Portuguese colonialism and the ruling class.
Book lovers and wordsmiths, mark your calendars! @stefanfatsis.bsky.social, author of UNABRIDGED, is lecturing for the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle on July 10th at 2pm.
Get your tickets now!
JOHN OF JOHN is included in @nytimes.com list of spring books they're excited about! We love to see it β€οΈ
292: Look It Up! The Story of the Dictionary
βUnabridgedβ author @StefanFatsis.bsky.social and Bob Garfield on lexicography and the heiress with historyβs best collection of dictionaries.
π§Listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic...
#lexiconvalley #podcast @groveatlantic.bsky.social
Keep your eyes peeled for this recently acquired debut novel π THIS IS MY IDEA OF FUN by Georgia Elander explores obsession, shame, and chosen family!
33 PLACE BRUGMANN is a finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards in the Book Club Award category! π₯³
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/75th-national-jewish-book-award-winners
"Winterson uses her imagination to offer us a world better than our own."
Read the full review of Jeanette Winterson's ONE ALADDIN TWO LAMPS in @wirobooks.bsky.social here:
"Crackling with incendiary themes and theses, this account of life under authoritarian siege is fiercely local and incontestably universal, harrowing and mutinously entertaining: a sure-fire Booker contender."
@theguardian.com on REBEL ENGLISH ACADEMY!
REBEL ENGLISH ACADEMY (out this week) is a @time.com best book of February!
βOne of the most original and important books on Africa in years. Especially in the dazzling first section, almost every page bristles with ideas and challenges to lazy (often prejudiced) thinking.β
Excellent review of HOW AFRICA WORKS in @financialtimes.com!
"A panoramic account of the fight to end slavery."
Fantastic review of THE GREAT RESISTANCE by @carriegibson.bsky.social in @theguardian.com!
Clea Simon on James Lee Burke's latest, "The Hadacol Boogie." @groveatlantic.bsky.social. At times shambolic, this rich, rambling novel hits on many themes that will be familiar to fans of the 89-year-old author.
artsfuse.org/324006/book-...
Two decorated detectives must put their careers on the line to find the link between three seemingly-unrelated homicides in LEO by @deonmeyer.bsky.social β the latest thriller in the No.1 internationally bestselling #BennyGriessel series.
Out now in paperback from @groveatlantic.bsky.social!ππ¦
This Black History Month is a great time to explore authors as well as books, so we asked the questions everyone wants to know in this Q&A with @laurenfsharma.bsky.social, David Wright FaladΓ©, and @tochitruestory.bsky.social!
"Love is at its essence the effort of dignity, and dignity you must give, to the best of your ability, and to the very last."
Stephanie Sy-Quia, author of A PRIVATE MAN, on love and caregiving π read it here:
Happy Valentine's Day! To celebrate, you should read this amazing article that Lily King wrote on love β€οΈ
MEXICO author and historian Paul Gillingham wrote a fantastic op ed in @latimes.com on how Mexico's elections can be a role model for the United States. Read it here:
We are saddened to hear that Cees Nooteboom, one of Hollandβs most renowned authors who wrote the profound and haunting novel LOST PARADISE, has died at 92.
HEART THE LOVER is longlisted for the Pen/Faulkner Award! Congratulations to Lily and the other authors selected π₯³
A vivacious woman falls in love with a priest in 1950s England in the emotive and revelatory debut novel from poet Stephanie Sy-Quia. This is superb. @groveatlantic.bsky.social
A mesmerizing treatise on better living inspired by an ancient Arabic tale. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/o... @groveatlantic.bsky.social #booksky
We are hiring for our spring 2026 marketing internship! If you're a book lover and are interested in learning the ins and outs of how a book is launched into the world, then apply below:
https://groveatlantic.com/careers/
Mark your calendars! THE UNVEILING has been selected as the April 16th book club selection for the Larry Meiller Show on WPR.
"The tension between what the market is doing and what, by the authorβs lights, it ought to be doing, will keep investment-minded readers turning these smart and accessible pages."
Read the full review of THE MAKING OF A PERMABEAR in @wsj.com here:
Check out this wonderful profile on UNABRIDGED author @stefanfatsis.bsky.social in @reuters.com!
"An engrossing and chilling tale . . . If the West chooses to let its enemies win, history will not judge its leaders kindly." @economist.com on IF RUSSIA WINS.
SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE, Donna Leon's Commissario Brunetti series, LANGUAGE CITY, and TROPIC OF CANCER seen in this Washington Independent Review of Books list of best books read in 2025!
Not sure what to read next? @theobserveruk.bsky.social has some books they recommend for understanding the season, including WINTER by @valmcdermid.bsky.social!
Who's lost the plot? According to THE HITCH author Sara Levine, these seven women have! Read the @electricliterature.com article here: