Melville House Books

Since its inception twenty years ago this February (02/20/02 to be exact), Melville House has been called “brilliant,” “anti-establishment,” “small but innovative,” and “[an] enticing American boutique.”  Twenty years later,… Read more »

Last week, three U.S. senators introduced a new bill that could curtail Big Tech’s use of targeted advertising. The Banning Surveillance Advertising Act is sponsored by Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Jan… Read more »

Last month three of our spring 2022 authors joined us for a day of virtual events with librarians across the country. Now, you can watch for yourselves!      … Read more »

Dear Librarians, Many of you might already know how important libraries have been in my life—I grew up in a town that didn’t have a bookstore until I was a… Read more »

In 2011 Scott Sherman wrote the first of a series of powerful Nation articles which disclosed that the trustees of the New York Public Library had hatched a covert plan to flog off… Read more »

    Its messaging can seem cryptic, even nonsensical, yet for tens of thousands of people, it explains everything. What is QAnon, where did it come from, and is the… Read more »

Last week we had the privilege of participating in the Penguin Random House Spring Festival for librarians (thanks to everyone who stopped by!). Three of our authors joined us in… Read more »

  Sharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world’s largest democracy and second most populous country. It is also… Read more »

  Daniel Combs spent the past six years studying Myanmar’s ethnic conflicts. The result: Until the World Shatters, the first in depth reporting on Myanmar’s jade war and the largest… Read more »

Brooklyn, September 2, 2020 — We are sad to announce the passing of our author David Graeber. He was 59 years old, and died yesterday in a hospital in Venice,… Read more »