Melville House Books

In France, you can’t pay a dead writer a higher honor than by placing his body in the fabled Pantheon, alongside what’s left of Voltaire, Dumas, Hugo, Rousseau, Zola, and… Read more »

Today is the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s game-changing book, On the Origin of Species. It was first published on Nov. 24, 1859 in a run of… Read more »

Over at the New York Times’ Paper Cuts blog, their “Stray Questions” segment features none other than… Roberto Bolaño.  Excerpted from our new collection of interviews with Bolaño — Roberto… Read more »

Oh, the joys of comparing the book business to the music business: “Digital pirates, who for years have tormented the music and film industries, have found a new source of… Read more »

A copy of Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There that was owned by the woman who, as a little girl, inspired it — yep, the original Alice… Read more »