Complex and confusing, filled with words you don’t know and people you don’t understand, life is even more difficult to navigate than Ulysses. But luckily, we have Ulysses to help… Read more »

The Booker Prize is not perfect. Anyone who does not have a book shortlisted on any given year can tell you with annoyance just how much (too much) of books… Read more »

In 1982, the young William T. Vollmann worked odd jobs, including as a secretary at an insurance company, until he’d saved up enough money to go to Afghanistan, where he… Read more »

Recently, we brought you a report on the BBC’s forthcoming new drama, The Whale, which will centre around the tragedy of the Essex whaleship, the historical basis for Moby-Dick. Now, we bring you… Read more »

Today is the 77th anniversary of Georges Perec’s birth on March 7, 1936. He had a pleasant voice. (Maybe it’s the French accent.) You can listen to it in this… Read more »

People always ask us for holiday recommendations from our list. Tough one!… Read more »

 It’s a Tolstoy-tote weekend. Order by Sunday and for $20 receive one of our brand new “There is No Explanation” bags as well as The Death of Ivan Ilyich, the book… Read more »

The following is Edith Wharton’s introduction to William Gerhardie’s novel, Futility, releasing next month as part of Melville House’s THE NEVERSINK LIBRARY … There are few novelists nowadays, I suppose, who… Read more »

Believe the hype: literature-loving Americans are currently living in a golden age of translation. But what is translation? And how did it get so gilt? In 2008, the good people… Read more »

The poet delicately picks his nose while talking on my telephone, his old abraded sneakers up on my coffee table. This is authentic behavior, the poet is proving that he… Read more »