Melville House Books

Deborah Treisman says that the fiction department at The New Yorker is “often frustrated by novellas: they can do so much, and yet we can’t do much with them. There… Read more »

If you’re bad at spelling, you could wind up in jail. Assuming, of course, that your plan is to poison your husband, misspell a word in a forged do-not-resuscitate statement,… Read more »

It rained the evening of November’s meeting of the Melville House Book Club, and I don’t think a single one of us thought to bring along an umbrella. I certainly didn’t. Some… Read more »

Niccolò Capponi’s The Day the Renaissance Was Saved is more than just an histoire bataille (though it does bring to life an extraordinary 15th century battle in which Italy’s principal powers came to a… Read more »