Rudolph Herzog has a new book and a new film, what about you?
Veteran Melville House author Rudolph Herzog sure knows how to spin plates. In addition to making his English fiction debut this October with the spooktacular story collection Ghosts of Berlin,… Read more »
Living in the crosshairs: Trump’s nuclear threats highlight the folly of nuclear deterrence
Back in April, we wrote about an article Melville House’s own Rudolph Herzog had published in Foreign Policy, urging his native Germany not to build an illegal nuclear arsenal. Herzog’s arguments that threat of nuclear annihilation should… Read more »
Sgt. Melville’s Moby Hearts Club Band
Fifty is the new twenty-five (probably), and that’s excellent news for the Beatles’ epochal Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which was released in the US fifty years ago today (it’d… Read more »
And lo, it was called Saturday; and it was very good
Hello out there, everybody! First and perhaps most important: congratulations. Another instance of that most bewildering and horrendous of human institutions, the dreaded “week,” has passed, and you, you brave and… Read more »
No fighting in the War Room: Rudolph Herzog and the case of the disappearing nuclear forbearance
Last week, antifascist filmmaker, author, and Melvillean in good standing Rudolph Herzog did one of the things he does best: walked right up to a jaw-dropping conversation about nuclear armaments, and injected… Read more »
Three down, 205 to go…
Another week, everyone. There’s cause for gladness. For now, the federal judiciary is holding up, and the constitutional principles most directly under assault from the Turnip Administration are being defended.… Read more »
Herzog on Jimmy Fallon and Donald Trump: “That’s the moment to find a really intelligent and funny way to tear off the mask”
We’ve had a weekend now to ponder the Tousle Heard Round the World, when the Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon raised a lot of ire by playing nice with — and petting… Read more »
Melville House holiday staff picks 2013
People always ask us for holiday recommendations from our list. Tough one! The beauty of working at an indie is that you don’t have to work on books you don’t… Read more »
Interview: Rudolph Herzog, author of A Short History of Nuclear Folly
In A Short History of Nuclear Folly, Rudolph Herzog presents a devastating account of history’s most irresponsible uses of nuclear technology. From the rarely-discussed nightmare of “Broken Arrows” (40 nuclear… Read more »
Nuclear Folly Locator
In honor of Rudolph Herzog’s excellent A Short History of Nuclear Folly, we built this handy “Nuclear Folly Locator,” so you can browse a few of the strange (and sometimes horrifying)… Read more »