Melville House Books

“For a house that made its name publishing James Joyce and, more recently, E.L. Doctorow and Norman Mailer, Random House has had an unusual last year. Its two best-known, best-selling… Read more »

Four college students have been indicted on charges of stealing a first edition of Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species and sketches by John James Audobon from the library of… Read more »

“After three years of near silence about the attacks of Sept. 11, the literary world has begun to grapple with the meanings and consequences of the worst terrorist attack ever… Read more »

Some recent World-Book-Day fulminating that “writing culture has overtaken reading culture” has prompted a response from Robert McCrum in his most recent Observer column. He lumps the notion that “The… Read more »

“All curators dream of that great discovery — the scroll in the cave which tells us something new about Jesus, the flash of silver from dark-age silt, the old master… Read more »