September 28, 2016

We’ve recently written about a venerable dictionary publisher admonishing mankind for its racism and intolerance on Twitter. Today, in connection with the Monday night’s first presidential debate, the story is more like a… Read more »

Politics

Greta Thunberg named TIME person of the year; jointly scoops Waterstones book of the year — Tom Clayton
The votes are in: Melville House's books are here to help explain the UK's political mess — Nikki Griffiths
Diplomat allegedly caught on tape stealing a book — Andréa Córdova
Anonymous anti-Trump author censured: Hachette holds hard line — Mike Lindgren

Prisoners in Texas are allowed to read Hitler’s Mein Kampf, but not Jon Stewart’s America

Julia Fleischaker

In a piece published Tuesday at Quartz, Thu-Huong Ha writes: Each US state has their own policies for what books and magazines to let into prisons, and the rules aren’t clear or… Read more »

Why hasn’t a single Kurdish novel been published in English until now?

Kait Howard

Can you name a single Kurdish fiction writer? Probably not. For anyone who thinks that the US and UK have made sufficient progress bringing foreign literature into translation, it may… Read more »

#1000BlackGirlBooks founder releases limited edition ’zine for ELLE.com

Simon Reichley

Earlier this year we wrote about Marley Dias’s quest to gather 1000 books starring black girls and women of color and send them to a low-resources library St. Mary’s, Jamaica.… Read more »

Melville House Books

“Sounds good. Doesn’t work.” Buzzwords from the first presidential debate

Ryan Harrington