Melville House Books

In true X Factor style, the UK has spent the last few weeks watching ten MPs battle against each other to become the next Prime Minister. Subject to various TV and… Read more »

In a Facebook post two weeks ago (which you really ought to read in full), author T.J. Martinson revealed why, before even beginning his new position as an Assistant Professor of… Read more »

Hello sportsfans. It is our sad duty to report the passing of Jim Bouton—former New York Yankee All-Star pitcher, and perhaps the most famous literary chronicler of life in Major… Read more »

Cycling around France all summer sounds just wonderful, right? The wind in your hair. The breathtaking landscapes. The picture-perfect villages, with the tantalising aroma of freshly-baked baguettes wafting over from the boulangerie… Read more »

As noted by several literary news agencies, including The Bookseller, the British Library has acquired the archives of Granta, the 130 year-old taste making literary journal and publisher. And its not just back issues of… Read more »

July 15th. The high noon of summer. And it seems like we’re itching for a showdown. On that day, workers in Amazon’s Shakopee, Minnesota fulfillment center plan to strike in protest of… Read more »

Recent sports news has borne a strange resemblance to certain events last year. England fans, once again buoyed by the sight of a talented, forward-thinking, likeable set of players giving their all,… Read more »

Books for Africa, an organization that works to end the book famine in Africa, has been collecting and donating books to African students of all ages since its founding in… Read more »

A Room of One’s Own—an indie bookstore in Madison, WI that has been at it since the 70s—will be celebrating the long Fourth of July weekend by donating a portion… Read more »

This past Sunday, the Guardian featured a piece by Rachel Cooke on fellow journalist Sanam Maher and her book A Woman Like Her: The Short Life of Qandeel Baloch, which is out… Read more »

A win for bookstores everywhere! In last week’s Publishers Weekly, Ed Nawotka reported on a local DC bookstore whose proposed tax break with local government is gaining momentum. Sankofa Video… Read more »

The good news: audiobooks are doing well! Sales rose by 43% in the UK last year according to The Publishers Association (PA) Publishing Yearbook, and 37% in the US according… Read more »

Watch out, New York. Los Angeles is once again stepping on your literary dominance. According to the Los Angeles Times’s Michael Schaub, the esteemed literary journal Los Angeles Review of Book and… Read more »

Book Culture—the popular New York City bookstore with three locations in Manhattan and one in Long Island City, Queens—is in need of some financial relief. In a recent Facebook post addressed to… Read more »

Trainwreck: Sady Doyle offers an essential, timely, feminist anatomy of the female trainwreck. (Think Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, “crack is whack.” Where did these women come from? What are their… Read more »

Amazon Prime’s release of the show adaptation of “Good Omens,” one of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s well-known collaborations, has been receiving pretty good reviews but there’s one group who… Read more »

Let’s talk periods. Around 49.6% of the world’s population is female, and 26% are of reproductive age, and therefore likely to menstruate. It’s a biological fact. It is a precursor… Read more »

Some may say love letters are priceless, others say love letters are worth $876,000. The latter was the case for singer-song writer Leonard Cohen’s letters to his sweetheart Marianne Ihlen… Read more »

Since its debut, the ebook has come with a fair amount of philosophical baggage. Is it even a book? Is it the death of the book? Introduce the concepts of… Read more »

The United Arab Emirates literary scene has been blossoming these last few years with new festivals and book fairs, and most recently, a new poetry collective is taking root in Dubai.… Read more »