The following is Alexander Cockburn’s foreword to John Reed’s Snowball’s Chance, releasing in August as part of Melville House’s The Neversink Library. Snowball’s Chance takes its intriguing departure from Animal… Read more »

The Book of Khalid has a fascinating and important history starting with its place as the first Arab-American novel. Ameen Rihani’s sojourning tale of turn-of-the-century life in New York captures… Read more »

For those of us interested in the evolution of the written word (and who also enjoy rifling through celebrities’ personal effects), Retronaut has posted a series of letterheads from famous… Read more »

Since we’ll be out of the office tomorrow engaging in gluttonous activities, we thought it best to note before we leave that one of our authors, Ameen Rihani, was born… Read more »

Our new website and online store launches today. As you can see, it’s completely re-designed: we’re particularly proud of the new homepage, these nifty product pages, and, of course, the… Read more »

The Towering Irrelevance lists the 25 terms Herman Melville uses to describe beards in only two chapters of White Jacket or The World on a Man-of-War (via Flavorwire). Here they… 2 / Read more »

Click HERE to Suggest a Title for Our New Series     Pre-Order and get them 30 days early HERE The Neversink Library champions books from around the world that… Read more »