Way back when Melville House was just getting underway, there was no reason for anyone to say yes when we asked them to contribute to our first book, Poetry After… Read more »

For twenty years, Columbia University professor Manning Marable worked on the book that, as a New York Times story by Larry Rohter notes, “he considered his life’s work: redefining the… Read more »

Our friend and colleague Carl Bromley, the editorial director of Nation Books, wrote to us yesterday with the news that John Ross had died Monday the 17th. He was 72.… Read more »

Over the break we learned via the Los Angeles Times that scholar, author, and founder of the wonderful Arts and Letters Daily Denis Dutton passed away at the age of 66… Read more »

Theodore C. “Ted” Sorenson, one of the last surviving members of John F. Kennedy’s inner circle and one of the greatest political speech writers, phrasemakers, and propaganda writers of the… Read more »

Robert Katz, the author and screenwriter “who incurred the wrath of the Vatican by accusing Pope Pius XII of failing to act to stave off a Nazi massacre of Italians… Read more »

Jill Johnston, whose book Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution “spearheaded the lesbian separatist movement of the early 1970s,” has died at the age of 81 after suffering a stroke. Johnston… Read more »

One of the saddest stories that took place during our August hiatus was the suicide of The Virginia Quarterly Review managing editor Kevin Morrissey, allegedly as a result of workplace… 2 / Read more »

The least famous — although he perhaps should have been the most famous — member of the triumvirate that founded the Paris Review has died: Thomas Guinzburg, who co-founded the… Read more »

In 1993 I worked as the assistant manager of the Classic Bookshop on the concourse of the World Trade Center. Several weeks after the February 26th bombing, after we had… 6 / Read more »