Melville House Books

The winner of the annual Lionel Gelber Prize for the “world’s best book on foreign policy writing” has been named: Steve Coll, associate editor of the Washington Post has won… Read more »

“Let the browser beware,” says The New York Times’ Sarah Boxer. “The New York Public Library’s collection of prints, maps, posters, photographs, illuminated manuscripts, sheet-music covers, dust jackets, menus and… Read more »

Biographer John Worthen says he’s discovered the identity of the model for D.H. Larence’s most famous character, Lady Chatterly: none other than Lawrence’s own wife, Frieda Lawrence. In a new… Read more »

In his forthcoming book, The Singularity Is Near, Ray Kurzweil says “the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process,” an “end-of-humantime event” he calls The Singularity, will take place sometime… Read more »

The left wing think tank the Center for American Progress has announced the winners of the “Name Ann Coulter/s Next Book” contest. As Richard Leiby explains in his Reliable Source… Read more »