Weird Sub-Federal-Reserve Report swims across our field of vision, unsettles, amuses
We here at Melville House like to feel that our intellectual diet is broad and diverse; we consider ourselves genteel scholars, Renaissance persons to whom no form of discourse about… Read more »
New children’s book tells the story of the Chinese doctor who tried to warn the world about coronavirus
Dr. Li Wenliang was a Chinese ophthalmologist who worked at Wuhan Central Hospital. He was declared a “martyr,” the highest honour the Communist Party can bestow on a citizen killed working to serve… Read more »
How to introduce an internationally acclaimed writer to American readers
This December, Melville House will publish Revolution Sunday, a novel by the acclaimed Cuban writer, actress, radio host, and televised intellectual Wendy Guerra and in a translation by Achy Obejas.… Read more »
Elon Musk millionairesplains Marxism to a lefty publishing house, or, How much musk would an Elon musk if an Elon could musk musk?
So, Elon Musk is getting dragged on the internet right now, and it is relatively glorious. Musk has done many things to earn the contempt of the screengazing masses, from falsely smearing… Read more »
A harassment campaign continues at a small Communist bookstore
Back in October, we wrote briefly about a harassment campaign being directed by the far right against Revolution Books. However one feels about the Revolutionary Communist Party, the organization that runs… Read more »
Milan Kundera returns to Czech
To have your work published in your own country, your own language is an honor few(-ish) people receive. For the first time since it was written, The Book of Laughter and… Read more »
Jacob Blumenfeld defends Communism for Kids
Over the weekend, the New York Times ran a moving op-ed from Jacob Blumenfeld, one of the English translators of Bini Adamczak’s Communism for Kids. In it, Blumenfeld defends the book against… Read more »
Slavoj Žižek owes us an anti-Trump book, and this is why
I know that at this point in history most of us would rather binge-watch Ted Cruz’s infamous twenty-one-hour riff on Green Eggs and Ham, Duck Dynasty, the WWF, and great hamburgers… Read more »
A shadow chancellor sheds some light
Jeremy Corbyn, head of the UK’s opposition Labour Party, has been accused of numerous shortcomings, from an excessive devotion to bean-eating to an inadequate devotion to cookie-eating. He has also, like British opposition leaders… Read more »
Bini Adamczak’s Communism for Kids is panned by cheerleaders of an economic system that is destroying civilization
The MIT Press recently published a children’s book called Communism for Kids by Bini Adamczak. Unsurprisingly, this has made a lot of grouchy American reactionaries very angry. Let’s investigate. The… Read more »