Watch our authors in conversation at the Penguin Random House Spring Book Festival
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 »
Photos and video from India by Suchitra Vijayan, author of Midnight’s Borders
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 »
Exclusive photos of Myanmar from author Daniel Combs
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 »
On David Graeber
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 »
NYTimes tallies tsunami of Trump tomes; why John Dean’s book Is different
On Monday the New York Times published one of their intermittent “what’s going on in publishing” articles, this one titled “Trump Books Keep Coming, and Readers Can’t Stop Buying.” Times… Read more »
A Message from John Dean
How did America end up with a leader who acts so crudely and despotically, and counter to our democratic principles? Why do his followers stick with him, even when he… Read more »
Tactical Lessons From the Civil Rights Movement—an excerpt from Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit
Originally published by Pacific Standard, March 9, 2017, this piece from Malcolm Harris’s Shit is Fucked up and Bullshit asks what tactics anti-Trump movements might use to be meaningfully anti-Trump, and what we can… Read more »
The votes are in: Melville House’s books are here to help explain the UK’s political mess
The UK has taken to the polls in the third general election in five years—the first December election for almost a century. At the moment of writing, latest opinion poll… Read more »
How to cut 100K words from your manuscript
My debut novel, The Revisionaries, will be released on December 3. A little secret, now: It wasn’t supposed to get published—according to me. Before I started, I told myself that… Read more »
On the 10th anniversary of Hans Fallada’s Every Man Dies Alone
Interviews, never-before-seen photographs, rare essays by the author… Read more »