Crime writer wins gajillion-Euro Planeta Prize
Amid all the Booker buzz, a much more lucrative literary prize has gone largely unreported in the English-language press this week. The Planeta Prize awards a staggering €601,000 annually to one… Read more »
Eating your way through the classics with Fictitious Dishes
This week Melville House celebrates the latest release in our series of Pepe Carvalho mysteries from Spanish author Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. In Off Side, the pressure is on Carvalho to find… Read more »
Balzac’s glazed game and food in fiction
A few pages of Balzac is all you need to know that you’re in the company of a serious foodie—his descriptions of meals and restaurants are painstaking, mouthwatering and frequent.… Read more »
MAKING THE COVER: The Pepe Carvalho series