Melville House Books

For a week now debate has raged over a poem by Günter Grass (“What Must Be Said,” first published in Süddeutsche Zeitung) that harshly criticizes Israel’s nuclear program and its aggression toward… Read more »

Barely two months after Random House became the darling of librarians across the country by announcing they would not restrict how many times an ebook was loaned out (see the… Read more »

The spirit of Félix Fénéon lives on. Remember Luc Sante’s brilliant 2007 translation of his faits divers? Novels in Three Lines collected the French anarchist and art critic’s beautifully and hilariously condensed… Read more »

Debating fiction and fact Atticus Finch mixtape The Great Gatsby movie poster Isolated vs. public writing The business of thinking big The stories behind some famous pen names This week… Read more »

America’s libraries often bear the brunt of censorship attempts. The American Library Association (ALA) has released its annual list of the most frequently challenged books of 2011.  According to the ALA… Read more »