Melville House Books

That bookstores and libraries can act as havens—for the lonely, the disenchanted, the revolutionary—is a familiar notion. Last Friday, Shakespeare and Company—the one on the banks of the Seine in Paris’s… Read more »

We’d be forgiven for not wanting to look at too many more paintings by Francis Bacon, the 20th-century artist known for his raw depictions of popes, screams, and crucifixions. But if… Read more »

Last week, MobyLives wrote about the correspondence of Ernest Hemingway, who, before he died, issued explicit instructions that his letters were not to be published after his death. A seven-volume… Read more »

In its perhaps most reflexive Word of the Year selection, Oxford Dictionaries has chosen the laugh/cry (or “Face with Tears of Joy”) emoji to represent 2015. It is, indeed, kind of… Read more »