September 29, 2017

Healthcare, as the Trump administration knows, is complicated. International affairs, we must concede, can have a lot of moving parts. But sending fun books to schoolchildren? That’s supposed to be… Read more »

Education

PEN protests prison prohibitions: book ban bemoaned — Mike Lindgren
James Patterson donating thousands of dollars to teachers — Stephanie DeLuca
Ending the book famine in Africa — Christina Cerio
"Sustainable Sue" discusses Keeping the Lights On: The What, Where, and How of Consumer Energy in New York — Christina Cerio

Reading online does not a new book format make

Alex Primiani

What’s in a book? Typically it’s an idea, or a story an author is trying to convey. Sure, readers nowadays can pick up books at stores or online, but it’s… Read more »

Biff, Chip, Kipper, cottaging — you know, normal British stuff

Simon Reichley

As Alison Flood reports this week at the Guardian, Oxford University Press is catching some classic Twitter heat for an alleged depiction of “cottaging” in an installment of their popular children’s book series… Read more »

Watch Matías Celedón stamp out his book!

Melville House

Last year, we were well over the moon to publish Matías Celedón’s The Subsidiary in a translation by Samuel Rutter. Other people really, really liked it too. The entire book was printed in old desk stamps,… Read more »

Melville House Books

Grade school librarian to Melania: Get unbent and do something to help underserved children

Ian Dreiblatt