Melville House Books

Situated on 400 acres in the middle of the East River, the Rikers Island complex includes ten separate jails, holding just under 10,000 prisoners at any given time. Facilities include a… Read more »

Shortly after our recent piece on the close of the Hong Kong Book Fair ran, reports of a massive search and seizure by Hong Kong’s Office for Film, Newspaper and Article… Read more »

Ever heard of pareidolia? That’s the pheneomenon in which people see familiar patterns in random stimuli. It’s the human brain struggling to make sense of entropy, and it’s a particularly… Read more »

Hey, America! Good morning. It’s been an intense couple of weeks, and today may just be the perfect time to spend a half hour with the brilliant bell hooks, scholar, activist,… Read more »