Melville House Books

Bookstores across the pond are far from immune to the curse of closures: like the crumbling empire of Borders in the US, there appears to be trouble brewing for major… Read more »

David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel, The Pale King, is the most anticipated work of fiction in 2011. In a recent MobyLives post I worried that the book will not live up to… 18 / Read more »

The San Francisco Chronicle points us to The Once and Future School’s contribution to the current debate about racism in Mark Twain’s Huck Finn. Posted on Youtube (below) the documentary… Read more »

Still need inspiration for those get-fit, eat-better new year’s resolutions? The mere fact of a number on the scales higher than you’d prefer not enough to get you to change… Read more »

Copyright in the digital age The bible makes the bestseller list Paul Theroux has problems with Autobiography 75% of college students prefer print to digital eBooks may have saved the… Read more »