What do you do with a Fascist writer: Checking in on Pound and Céline
Among the stracciatelle of Italian political parties, there’s one that manages to churn up special agita for two seemingly unconnected groups: the European left, and readers of American poetry. The openly Fascist CasaPound… Read more »
That “Fearless Girl” sculpture should stay up — as a reminder of the Democratic Party
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 »
Getting to know people who know what we do now: George Saunders, Gloria Steinem, Nato Thompson
As you might have heard, in time for Inauguration Day we’re putting out What We Do Now, a collection of short, powerful essays on what we can do now to cope with Trump’s election, and how, moving… Read more »
Sanders, Warren, Steinem, and Other Leading Progressives Respond to Trump in New Melville House Book Pubbing for Inauguration Day
Melville House has announced it will publish a collection of passionate manifestos by leading progressives—including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Gloria Steinem, Paul Krugman, Robert B. Reich, and others—and that it… Read more »
Protest sets millions of dollars worth of punk rock history ablaze
“Punk has become another marketing tool to sell you something you don’t need.” It’s a line that could come straight from Nato Thompson’s forthcoming Melville House book Culture as Weapon. But most recently… Read more »
Advertising in a Post-Factual Democracy
“Some marketers have been left wondering if facts and reason matter less than they expected.” The sentence is a bit shocking. It seems to signal a sea change in an… Read more »
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there were some librarians coming down along the road and these librarians that were coming down along the road met a nicens little house named Melville House
Reader, it had been a long and hard five months since we last met with the Librarians, that estimable gang of Good-protecting know-a-lot-ers and friendly faces. And so when the moment… Read more »
You can now read Playboy in public, and sales are up
When Playboy, that classic dirty magazine of your parents’ (and grandparents’) generation, announced their decision to stop publishing photos of nude women last winter, it seemed a very belated concession… Read more »
This is what it looks like when pigeons fly
The geniuses of public art installation at Creative Time have struck again, this time in Melville House’s own backyard: The Brooklyn Navy Yard. For the next 6 weekends they’ll be… Read more »