Melville House Books

The Amazon tablet is definitely getting nigh. Everybody says so. The people at PCMag.com, for example, who report that “Amazon is ordering enough tablet components from Taiwanese manufacturers to assemble… 10 / Read more »

This week we published Havana Real: One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth About Cuba Today by Yoani Sánchez. In 2007 Yoani started the blog Generation Y, which was one of the… Read more »

As my colleague Jason mentioned earlier this week, here at Melville House we couldn’t be more excited about the launch of Banana Yoshimoto’s incredible new novel, The Lake. Among book… Read more »

More than anything else, the social network has made one thing clear: people want to be noticed on even the minutest levels. So-And-So just checked into their beloved sushi restaurant,… Read more »

In The Boston Review, Junot Díaz considers the important role apocalypse plays in breaking down our ignorance and denial. Apocalypse comes to us from the Greek apocalypsis, meaning to uncover and unveil. Now,… Read more »