Melville House Books

When you’re making sweeping generalizations about what to read to get to know another country—its history, its inhabitants, and its literature— the honorable route to take is one of compensatory… Read more »

Do you have a great idea you think you could sucker desperate well-meaning school admins into buying in bulk? An app about, I don’t know, math monkeys or something? Monkeys… Read more »

A draft of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem “Binsey Poplars”—the last major Hopkins manuscript known to be in private hands—has been bought by the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford… Read more »

We told you last year about an edible cookbook that bakes itself into a lasagna, and this week there’s news of a similarly interactive cookbook that has to be sliced… Read more »