Spring Books Preview: Fixers by Michael M. Thomas
Over the next few days, we’ll be offering a peek at the titles we have lined up for Spring. Michael M. Thomas’s novel Fixers is out Jan 26, 2016. How did the… Read more »
Spring Books Preview: A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar
Over the next few days, we’ll be offering a peek at the titles we have lined up for Spring. Lavie Tidhar’s novel A Man Lies Dreaming is out March 8, 2016.… Read more »
Marco Rubio’s An American Son is a memoir, but is it also an ethics violation?
Florida senator and presidential candidate Marco Rubio published his memoir, An American Son, in 2012, a year and a half into his first (and last) Senate term. The book—for which… Read more »
Has anyone in the White House read the Senate Torture Report?
On Monday, we wrote about Amnesty International’s day of action in honor of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture. Amnesty’s campaign—American Torture Story—encouraged the group’s members to remind Congress,… Read more »
“A time full of hope has been replaced by a time of fear”: Svetlana Alexievich delivers Nobel Lecture in Literature
Yesterday, Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich delivered the annual Nobel Lecture in Literature, at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. Past lectures have provided fascinating windows into prizewinners’ life and work, and… Read more »
Amnesty International commemorates one-year anniversary of Senate Torture Report with day of action
Wednesday, December 9th marks the one-year anniversary of the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture. While publication of the report did much to make visible the horrific… Read more »
Amazon releases elaborate commercial for increasingly not nonexistent delivery system
Two years after announcing its drone delivery service, Prime Air, Amazon released a new commercial for the service. The ad stars boorish, producer-punching Englishman Jeremy Clarkson, who, throughout its running time,… Read more »
British bookstores respond to Black Friday with “Civilised Saturday”
Every year, Black Friday sales remind us that to be American is to love a good deal. (Indeed, here at Melville House, we’ve got our very own Black Friday sale… Read more »
Readers who thought they were buying The Girl on the Train make Girl on a Train a surprise hit
The virtues of physical bookstores are well-known: they encourage chance encounters and spontaneity, they support local communities, they are not terrible mega-corporations. One more point in their favor: it’s hard to… Read more »
Preview: We, Robots by Curtis White
We, Robots by Curtis White comes out today, which means you still have a few weeks to absorb its arguments before your inevitable Thanksgiving confrontation with your tech-bro evangelist cousin, whose new… Read more »