Melville House imprint: 317 books
Three Days in May
Sex, Surveillance, and DSK
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
A veteran journalist continues his “exhaustively researched” (The Guardian) investigation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Here investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein casts fresh doubt on the events surrounding a now-infamous sexual encounter between Dominique Strauss-Kahn—better know by...
A Citizen's Guide to Impeachment
A Citizen's Guide to Impeachment
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Impeachment is based upon “those offences which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust … as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.” —Alexander Hamilton
A non-partisan guide to a...
The Invisible Killer
The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution-and How We Can Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
An urgent examination of one of the biggest global crises facing us today--air pollution--looking at the drastic worsening of the problem, and what we can do about it.
"Fascinating, readable, and terrifying in equal measure." —Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees
The air pollution that...
The Money Cult
Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
A grand and startling work of American history
America was founded, we’re taught in school, by the Pilgrims and other Puritans escaping religious persecution in Europe—an austere and pious lot who established a culture that remained pure and uncorrupted until the Industrial Revolution got...
The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture
Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
“The most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations.” —Los Angeles Times
Meticulously formatted, this is a highly readable and fully searchable edition of the official summary report of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of Central Intelligence...
by Paul Dickson
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
A smart, hilarious, and lavishly illustrated guide to the most euphemised word in the English language: Drunk
A record-breaking assemblage of 2,964 different ways to say "drunk." Tipsy, roasted, three sheets, whazooed and Boris Yeltsinned are just the beginning....With an introduction...
Contraband Cocktails
How America Drank When It Wasn't Supposed To
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Americans weren’t supposed to drink during Prohibition—but that’s exactly when “cocktail culture” came roaring to life. The Bloody Mary, sleek cocktail shakers, craft mixology, and hundreds of other essentials of modern drinking owe their origins to the Dry Years.
In Contraband Cocktails,...
An Afghanistan Picture Show
Or, How I Saved the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Never before available in paperback and all but invisible for twenty years, a personal account of the origins of America's longest war.
In 1982, the young William Vollmann worked odd jobs, including as a secretary at an insurance company, until he'd saved up enough money to go to Afghanistan,...
Seeing Power
Art and Activism in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
In our chaotic world of co-opted imagery, does art still have power?
A fog of images andinformation permeates the world nowadays: from advertising, television, radio, and film to the glut produced by the new economy and the rise of social media . . . where even our friends suddenly seem to...
by Lee Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
An electrifying debut novel that becomes a shocking tale about... boredom
In a deeply compelling debut novel, Lee Rourke—a British underground sensation for his story collection Everyday—tells the tale of a man who finds his life so boring it frightens him. So he quits his job to spend some...
by Rachel Cantor
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED SECOND NOVEL FROM THE WRITER EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL (STATION ELEVEN) CALLS “SHARP, WITTY, AND IMMENSELY ENTERTAINING”
Is a new life possible? Because Shira Greene’s life hasn’t quite turned out as planned. She’s a single mom living with her daughter and her gay...
by THOMAS S. GOWING
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
A humorous and bizarre artifact from the Victorian culture of manliness, and the perfect gift book for the man in your life -- bearded or not.
The Philosophy of Beards is a curious look into the Victorian culture of hyper-manliness. The author makes his case for the universal wearing of a beard--proclaiming...
Kathy Acker: The Last Interview
and Other Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Kathy Acker was a punk-rock counter-cultural icon, and innovator of the literary underground. The interviews collected here span her amazing, uncompromising, and often misunderstood 30-year career.
From Acker's earliest interviews--filled with playful, evasive, and counter-intuitive responses--to...
The Journal I Did Not Keep
New and Selected Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature, as this generous sampler attests."—The New York Times
"Segal is a monumental writer, one of the finest of her generation; this lovely collection is a fine introduction to her work."—Kirkus...