Melville House Books

There are loads of things we predicted the new Dan Brown novel would bring: clumsy, soul-destroying prose, translators cast into working conditions resembling the pits of hell, Tom Hanks looking… Read more »

The New York Public Library officially unveiled the architectural plans today for the long-left-in-limbo Donnell Branch on 53rd Street. The good news is that it’s nice and airy-looking. The bad… Read more »

Ernest Hemingway wrote some of his most enduring works from his estate in Cuba, where he lived off and on from 1939-1960, but until now most of his papers from that… Read more »

Have you heard that Dan Brown published a book called Inferno? Well, one of our best and most searing critics, Clive James, certainly did. James recently translated the original Inferno, which was… Read more »