In 2000, via campus mail, I received an invitation to attend a party to celebrate Chinua Achebe’s 70th birthday. I was a student in his “Modern African Fiction” class at… Read more »

Among the many abstractions abandoned by modernity and rarely confronted in cosmopolitan, “First World” settings like the one I’m self-congratulatingly writing from, if you will allow that unfashionable designation (especially… Read more »

To commemorate the passing of one of Melville House’s favorite writers, Alexander Pushkin, we’re running a weekend long sale on his seminal work of Russian prose fiction: Tales of Belkin.… Read more »

“HAVEN’T YOU HEARD OF THE DUEL GOING ON EVER SINCE 1801?” Well, it’s epic and keeps gathering momentum now that we’ve published The Duel by Joseph Conrad as part of… Read more »

We’re pleased to announce the winner of the Ultimate Duel Book Trailer Contest. The winning entry, by a landslide, was created by The Glossary, a start-up video production company that aims to… Read more »