It's time to do more than protestIn It’s Time to Fight Dirty, David Faris offers accessible, actionable strategies for American political reform which doesn't require a constitutional amendment,
From a former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent, an exuberant memoir of life, love, and transformation on the frontlines of conflicts around the worldGrowing up in 1970s Detroit, Lynda Sc
“Virtually all human societies are marked by inequality, at a level that surpasses what could be expected from normal differences in individuals’ capabilities alone.” So begins this new approach to t
A grand and startling work of American historyAmerica was founded, we’re taught in school, by the Pilgrims and other Puritans escaping religious persecution in Europe—an austere and pious lot who esta
A completely original guide to the screenwriter's art -- as only the writer of Blade Runner could concieve it.The master speaks, in this unique guide for screenwriters -- and writers and artists of al
From “one of the most interesting and exciting new novelists in years” (Electric Literature), a story of imagination and survival in the tradition of Carson McCullers and Denis JohnsonTrou
An urgent examination of one of the biggest global crises facing us today--air pollution--looking at the return and drastic worsening of the problem, and what we can do about it.A shocking realization
A deep look into the raging social media battles between red and blue Americans and the growing threat to US democracy from right-wing extremism.The Far Right’s rise to power has ignited a digit
“For sheer reading pleasure Ladee Hubbard’s original and wildly inventive novel is in a class by itself.” —Toni Morrison “The Talented Ribkins is a charming and deli
'Intimate, ruthless, tender: this book is like medicine for the soul.' Nina George, author of The Little Paris BookshopA beautifully poignant and poetic debut about love, loss, friendship, and ultimat
One of the country's leading activist curators explores how corporations and governments have used art and culture to mystify and manipulate us.The production of culture was once the domain of artists
A fun, illustrated history of the umbrella's surprising place in life and literatureHumans have been making, using, perfecting, and decorating umbrellas for millennia--holding them over the heads of r
From the first North American scholar permitted to study at Cuba's Finca Vigia Museum and Research Center, Hemingway's former residence, comes a radically new understanding of Hemingway's life in Cuba
"A haunting, slim novel which has the mesmeric inevitability of a classical tragedy." --Independent on SundayLa Femme de Gilles tells the story of a fatal love triangle—written on the eve of World War
Herman Melville's final masterpiece, found unpublished on his desk at his death.Billy Budd, Sailor would emerge, after its publication in 1924, as one of Melville's best-loved books--and one of his m
An extraordinary collection of interviews with the beloved doctor and author, whose research and books inspired generations of readers.Oliver Sacks—called "the poet laureate of medicine" by the New Yo
To hide its dramatic findings, the government released its mandated Climate Assessment Report on Black Friday while everyone was out shopping. Melville House is rushing the report into print - includi
A brilliant modernist classic--now available for the first time in a stand-alone editionThis dreamy, formally audacious story of a summer's day in the life of one family is a small masterpiece by Kath
