Melville House Books

If you’re a Civil War historian, and you’re female, you better both know your bonnets and cite them appropriately from the Encyclopedia of Civil War Bonnetry and Bonnetology, 6th edition.… Read more »

Is Amazon censoring Hachette authors? Authors United seems to think so. And Ursula Le Guin agrees. When asked why she had joined Authors United, Le Guin told The New York Times “We’re… Read more »

The National Book Awards has revealed its shortlists for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature. Fiction shortlist: An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine (Grove Press) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Scribner) Redeployment by Phil… Read more »

If the Invisible Woman vanished, would anybody notice? Marvel Comics confirmed over the weekend that the popular comic book series The Fantastic Four will come to a close next year,… Read more »

“It is a pity I can’t receive my own letters. If they produce as much wholehearted approval at their destination as they do at their source, they should indeed be… Read more »