How early do you normally arrive for a flight? I give it a couple of hours myself—or at least enough time to buy some outlandishly-sized triangular Swiss chocolate and a… Read more »

I don’t know where you were last Thursday, March 1, but we here at Melville House were eagerly following the new TA First Translation Prize on Twitter for the announcement of their… Read more »

After a year of harassment by the Egyptian government, Cairo’s Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence was shut down by authorities yesterday. The closure—executed by fifteen plainclothes… Read more »

In their latest bid to takeover the world, Amazon has apparently started searching for prime locations in central London to launch their first Amazon Go store in the UK. Last December… Read more »

Hail the mighty authors of Melville House! For the first half of the summer, while you were stalking Butterfree between the stacks, chilling with a beach read, or standing over the… Read more »

When Egyptians took to the streets in mid-2013, gathering in their greatest numbers since the Arab Spring to demonstrate against the Muslim Brotherhood regime, they did so under the same… Read more »

A New York Times cover story by Alexandra Alter this weekend began: Basma Abdel Aziz was walking in downtown Cairo one morning when she saw a long line of people standing… Read more »

Much of a translator’s work boils down to being a mediator. In the larger sense, we’re mediators between languages, of course. But translating an entire novel also means mediating between… Read more »

Last week, Melville House published The Queue, the English-language debut of Egypt’s Basma Abdel Aziz. It promptly received a great deal of attention, and we thought you might want something to… Read more »