Melville House Books

It has been almost two months since a special January 30th Publishers Weekly alert went out to subscribers announcing “Simon & Schuster, Barnes & Noble in Dispute Over Terms.” While some… Read more »

On Saturday, Boris Berezovsky, the once powerful Russian oligarch who helped bring Vladimir Putin to power, was found dead in his home in Ascot, England, an as yet “unexplained death,”… Read more »

D.H. Lawrence, one of the twentieth century’s most admired novelists, has never been known for his poetry. His best known work confronted British social hypocrisy and sexual mores in the… Read more »

Neil Gaiman, who got his start writing comic books and made a name for himself with his acclaimed Sandman series of graphic novels, will return to his roots to work… Read more »

In 2000, via campus mail, I received an invitation to attend a party to celebrate Chinua Achebe’s 70th birthday. I was a student in his “Modern African Fiction” class at… Read more »