Grove Atlantic: 1452 books
Acid Dreams
The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“An engrossing account” of the history of LSD, the psychedelic 1960s, and the clandestine mind games of the CIA (William Burroughs).
Beginning with the discovery of LSD in 1943, this “monumental social history of psychedelia” tracks the most potent drug known to science—from its use...
The Beholder's Eye
A Collection of America's Finest Personal Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Great journalists, at one time or another, have all been characters in their own stories: people with personalities that shaped what they saw and reported, and were touched and changed by the experiences about which they wrote; and innovators who borrowed the storytelling techniques of fiction. The...
by J. P. Donleavy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
“A picaresque novel to stop them all. Lusty, violent, wildly funny, it is a rigadoon of rascality, a bawled-out comic song of sex.” (Dorothy Parker, Esquire)
First published in Paris in 1955, and originally banned in the United States and Ireland, J. P. Donleavy’s debut novel has since...
The Hadj
An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
With this impassioned memoir, an American convert to Islam “lifts the veil on this ancient and sacred duty” of making a pilgrimage to Mecca (Publishers Weekly).
The hadj, or sacred journey, is the pilgrimage to Mecca that all Muslims are enjoined to make once in their lifetimes. One of the...
Had a Good Time
Stories from American Postcards
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
For many years Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler has collected picture postcards from the early twentieth century-not so much for the pictures on the fronts but for the messages written on the backs, little bits of the captured souls of people long since passed away. Using these brief...
World of the Buddha
An Introduction to the Buddhist Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Selections from the most significant texts in the body of Buddhist literature.
For readers who want a deeper understanding of Buddhism, this is a rich, varied, and comprehensive collection in one volume. It includes the most significant texts from the vast body of Buddhist literature, and includes...
Lenin's Kisses
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This “blistering satire” of modern China was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize and a New York Times Editor’s Choice novel (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Lenin’s Kisses is set in modern day China, in the village of Liven. Nestled within the Balou Mountains, the...
The Explosion Chronicles
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
“A rip-roaring Swiftian satire from a contemporary Chinese master” follows a rural community’s transformation from small village to megalopolis (The Economist**).**
With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded more than a millennium...
Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused
Fiction from Today's China
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused is a showcase for 20 writers from the new literary generation in China. Hard-core realism, experimental prose, and black humor; exoticism and eroticism;shocking tales of brutality, tender evocations of love, and engrossing mysteries all coexist in an anthology that spans...
All the Way
A Play
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
This Tony Award–winning, “jaw-dropping political drama” chronicles LBJ’s fight for the Civil Rights Act and includes an introduction by Bryan Cranston (Variety).
Winner of the 2014 Tony Award for Best Play, as well as Best Play awards from the New York Drama Critics’ Circle, the Outer...
Second Nature
A Gardener's Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“One of the distinguished gardening books of our time,” from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma (USA Today).
Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the 75 greatest books ever written about gardening
After Michael Pollan bought an old Connecticut...
Dropping Ashes on the Buddha
The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The classic guide for Zen students pursuing the true way.
“Somebody comes into the Zen center with a lighted cigarette, walks up to the Buddha-statue, blows smoke in its face and drops ashes on its lap. You are standing there. What can you do?” This is a problem that Zen Master Seung Sahn...
In the Walled City
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
An award-winning collection of short fiction from one of “the strongest American writers of his generation” (The Washington Post Book World).
Proclaimed “a master” by the New York Times and selected as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists, Stewart O’Nan started his literary...
Alif the Unseen
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
“[A] Harry Potter-ish action-adventure romance” set during the Arab Spring, from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Ms. Marvel comic book series (The New York Times).
In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker, who goes by Alif, shields his clients—dissidents,...