Melville House Books

This is life in 2019: One of our favorite indie bookstores, Denver’s BookBar, was targeted by an alt-right group last week. The group, who we are not naming here in… 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 »

Back in July 2018 we reported that only 1% of children’s books in the UK depict Black And Minority Ethnic main characters (BAME), and almost a year later, it seems… Read more »

Animals, with the exception of some humans, do not listen to election promises. But the successful campaign of Benyamin Netanyahu for his fifth term as Prime Minister of Israel held… Read more »

Early this week, we wrote that “Elliott Management, has purchased the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain for ‘roughly $683 million, including debt,’ according to Lauren Hirsch for CNBC.” Elliott Management, most notably, is… Read more »

Our relationship with technology is quickly becoming one of the most discussed topics of our time. Whether it be the inevitability of AI or social media’s turn to consumerism, the… Read more »

The monopolization of the publishing industry continues, this time with the recent announcement that international hedge fund, Elliott Management, has purchased the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain for “roughly $683 million, including… Read more »

Over the past few weeks, reading groups to get citizens studying the Mueller Report have begun popping up all over the country. The folks over at muellerbookclub.com launched an initiative (not unlike… Read more »

Would you call causal transphobia “cheerful vulgarity” or inexcusable discrimination? Writer Gareth Roberts has discovered the consequences of oversharing on social media when tweets he made back in September 2017… Read more »

Veteran Melville House author Rudolph Herzog sure knows how to spin plates. In addition to making his English fiction debut this October with the spooktacular story collection Ghosts of Berlin,… Read more »

Gibby Haynes, singer of the psychedelic band Butthole Surfers, has been called “the weirdest man in show business.” We could cite a number of naked or tripped out incidents to… Read more »

Turkish writers and academics are being persecuted for their work at an alarming rate, thanks to the current turmoil in the country. One writer, Elif Shafak, is speaking out against… Read more »