Melville House Books

While writers and agents and publishers and scouts and readers and booksellers flocked to the Javits Center for BookExpo earlier this month, a petition signed by more than 100 authors… Read more »

Enter a bookstore in Iran and you’re likely to be greeted by countless books that, although penned by familiar writers, you’ve never seen before: works long out-of-print, or never-before-in-print, elsewhere. Writing… Read more »

Back in those breezy, know-nothing days of 2014, Russia invaded Crimea, Ebola was terrifying the masses, and we were reporting on a Pew Research Center study that suggested millennials used libraries as much… Read more »

Warren Zevon, multiple Grammy Award winner and the excitable boy himself, died in September 2003. Over the fifty-six years before that happened, he amassed a collection of books totaling comfortably… Read more »

Do you remember our piece a couple months back, about how toddlers’ reading comprehension remains about the same, regardless of whether they’re reading a print book or a digital one?… Read more »

Two years ago today, we took a major step toward equality and justice when the Supreme Court issued its decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, the case that legalized gay marriage across… Read more »

Remember Preet Bharara? You do, but just so you have all the facts in front of you: Bharara was a US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, whom Donald Trump promised,… Read more »

Folks, the jig is up. After decades of market research, untold hours fiddling with Photoshop, trackless weeks spent optimizing and promoting and cross-marketing and emailing and reading and burning sacrificial… Read more »

Librarians at the University of Missouri are hoping Christmas comes early this year. They wrote a wish list of books they want for their library and sent it to the… Read more »

Ah, the nuance and beauty of the collective noun. Everyone has their favourite, from a murder of crows to a shrewdness of apes or an obstinacy of buffalo. Lane Smith’s book There… Read more »

After a piece of plaster fell from the ceiling of the New York Public Library’s iconic Rose Reading Room in 2014, the space was closed off for a staggering two-and-a-half… Read more »

At some point—who knows exactly when—the Writer, a white-haired white man in this fantasy, became the poster child for thoughtful interiority and private life. This writer took his time. He… Read more »

Earlier this week, Al Jazeera reported that police forces in Benghazi, Libya had collected and burned several thousand books, which, police claimed, promoted violence and propagated the ideas of the Muslim Brotherhood… Read more »

The first new work by Anthony Burgess in twenty years is upon us. It’s not a lost novel, as fans of A Clockwork Orange and Earthly Powers might hope, but rather the text… Read more »

So, summertime is back in full swing. Here’s some documentary footage of your life right now: Wow, whoa, ok. This doesn’t seem ideal. After beta-testing a few ideas that just wouldn’t… Read more »

“That little book had such an impact… It changes the course of history.” That’s Mary-Jane Deeb, chief of the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress on… Read more »

For nearly two years now, we’ve been following the case of Gui Minhai, a Swedish publisher and bookseller who disappeared in Thailand in October 2015, only to resurface in state custody… Read more »

America, I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but there’s treachery afoot. So, a play’s the thing: It depicts the unbridled jealousy of a beloved emperor by nervous, swamp-dwelling politicians terrified… Read more »

We know that the Alt(ernative)-right in this country takes pride in co-opting other people’s art and flipping it on its head to suit their message. We know also that online trolls… Read more »

Jana Koretko, publisher of JK Publishing in Colorado, is under arrest for money laundering, felony theft, computer crime, and tax evasion, according to Tom McGhee at the Denver Post. It appears… Read more »

Back in November, we wrote about Argentine artist Marta Minujín’s plans to erect a “parthenon of banned books” as part of the documenta 14 art fair in Kassel, Germany. It… Read more »

In Russia, June 12th is celebrated as Russia Day, an annual commemoration of the nation’s withdrawal from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It’s usually a day of celebration. Instead, this year, thousands of… Read more »

Over at the AV Club this week, Clayton Purdom tells the tale of Jamie Loftus, who’s eating Infinite Jest. Let me be more specific: he tells the tale of comedian and self-described “freak bitch [with]… Read more »

Happy Bloomsday, everyone! Today marks the 113th anniversary of Mr. Leopold Bloom eating with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls, and to celebrate, we thought we’d take a look back at… Read more »