Melville House Books

In a country plagued by inequality, it might be nice to take a minute to reflect on Jacob Riis, born 169 years ago today. More than just the namesake of several excellent parks… Read more »

Here we are, starting yet another month of 2017 with violence erupting all over the world. On October 1, the people of Catalonia were to vote on the autonomous community’s independence from Spain. The… Read more »

Oh hell no. Oh absolutely fucking not. We’re not going to make nice with the Nazis. We’re not hearing them out. We’re not seeking constructive engagement with their political energies.… Read more »

Kirill Medvedev is one of Russia’s best-known young writers and political activists. He’s a fan and translator of Charles Bukowski, and a leftist who carried political pollen from Occupy Wall Street to… Read more »

She stands with her hands on her hips and a ponytail flying in the wind. She squints her eyes and plants her feet in the earth with tremendous courage and… Read more »

Back in May, we covered a recommended reading list that had issued from the august offices of Goldman Sachs, the banking firm whose tightrope walk over the abyss of capitalism once… Read more »

Not in a generation have the causes and effects of inequality been debated as vigorously and publicly as they are today. In The Anatomy of Inequality, Swedish economist Per Molander considers… Read more »

“Inequality” is the word of the moment. In The Anatomy of Inequality, Swedish economist Per Molander considers the phenomenon of inequality in terms of its causes, effects, and possible solutions, looking… Read more »

The Department of Labor, begrudgingly founded by William Howard Taft on the last day of his presidency, turned 100 last year and celebrated by compiling a reading list of “Books… Read more »

To an outsider, the current unrest in Turkey, which began as a protest against the decimation of Gezi Park, one of Istanbul’s last public green spaces, seems to have many echoes… Read more »