Melville House Books

“With fat biographies of sundry Founding Fathers appearing every other month and bookstore tables still piled high with odes to the Greatest Generation, the public’s appetite for the American past… Read more »

In some of his greatest writing, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson covered the presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon, whom he famously savaged. Now, Thompson is back on the presidential campaign beat… Read more »

Officials at Amazon.com were crowing last week at the announcement that the company had tripled its pro-forma profits for the third quarter, but as Melanthia Mitchell reports in an Associated… Read more »

One of the hottest books in China right now is available only through the black market, although “bootleg copies are on sale everywhere”: China’s Peasants: A Survey has “proved so… Read more »

“A vicious and previously unpublished diatribe against Oscar Wilde by his lover Lord Alfred Douglas” is one of the things in an archive of material by or related to Wilde… Read more »

“While it has been suggested that Shakespeare dabbled with espionage and Catholic political activism,” a new, rather more radical theory about the Bard will be presented next month at the… Read more »

There are a number of reasons why Elvis Costello has not been the subject of a serious biography. As Phil Hogan notes in a review for The Observer, “in the… Read more »

In France, a book whose author was killed at Auschwitz “has taken the world of publishing by storm,” and is such a hit that “a vigorous campaign is underway” for… Read more »