Melville House Books

Imagine you’re in hospital. Perhaps from repetitive strain injury after reading too many excellent Melville House books. If you’re Jewish, you “may be vocal and demand assistance.” If you’re black,… Read more »

The editorial staff of the Third World Quarterly has resigned in protest over the publication of a controversial article in the journal’s most recent issue. The piece, titled “In Defense… Read more »

Fake science is most often sighted stalking the senators and presidents of our land. But it roams other terrain, too. For instance, it can thrive, and has for many years, foraging for scraps… Read more »

As the ship of fools known as 2016 goes down for the third time, we’re revisiting some of our favorite MobyLives posts from the past year. This one originally ran on April 27. John… Read more »

Last week, I had a long talk with Laurie Stone about censorship. It wasn’t the interview she had been planning for. The conversation Stone had expected would have taken place on… Read more »

You may have read recently about Liberty University students’ response to university president Jerry Falwell Jr.’s support of the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump. Falwell’s contentious discipleship has survived even the release of the… Read more »

Few languages have been loved as well, or as shallowly, as Yiddish. On the one hand, it’s much written-about, enjoys particular influence, and has continued to be enthused over, performed in,… Read more »

For a month and a half in early 1971, the Grolier Club in New York City (which bills itself as “America’s oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts in the graphic… Read more »

Staffers at the University of Georgia Press were plunged into bureaucratic farce last Friday when the van full of books they’d brought to set up for the Decatur Book Festival suddenly… Read more »

And for dessert, maybe some larbo? Or just loan me a bat hide to buy a dropped egg — I vum I’ll pay you back. So hungry I’d eat a whistle… Read more »