Melville House: 350 books
A Short History of Nuclear Folly
Mad Scientists, Dithering Nazis, Lost Nukes, and Catastrophic Cover-ups
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
In the spirit of Dr. Strangelove and The Atomic Café, a blackly sardonic people’s history of atomic blunders and near-misses revealing the hushed-up and forgotten episodes in which the great powers gambled with catastrophe
Rudolph Herzog, the acclaimed author of Dead Funny, presents a devastating...
by Mina Loy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
“He has an evening suit, but never an occasion to wear it, so he puts it on when he paints his pictures.”
Insel, the only novel by the surrealist master Mina Loy, is a book like no other—about an impossible friendship amid the glamorous artistic bohemia of 1930s Paris.
German painter...
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power
Community Organizing in Radical Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
THE STORY OF SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND LITTLE-KNOWN ACTIVISTS OF THE 1960s, IN A DEEPLY SOURCED NARRATIVE HISTORY
The historians of the late 1960s have emphasized the work of a group of white college activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing...
by Hannah Berman, Sholom Aleichem
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Even the most pious Jew need not shed so many tears over the destruction of Jerusalem as the women were in the habit of shedding when Stempenyu was playing.
The first work of Sholom Aleichem’s to be translated into English—this long out-of-print translation is the only one ever done under...
Eeeee Eee Eeee
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
“Tao Lin writes from moods that less radical writers would let pass—from laziness, from vacancy, from boredom. And it turns out that his report from these places is moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious.”
– Miranda July, author of No One Belongs Here More Than You
“Tao...
With My Dog Eyes
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Hilda Hilst (1930–2004) was one of the greatest Brazilian writers of the twentieth century, but her books have languished untranslated, in part because of their formally radical nature. This translation of With My Dog-Eyes brings a crucial work from her oeuvre into English for the first time.
With...
Why I Am Not a Feminist
A Feminist Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Outspoken critic Jessa Crispin delivers a searing rejection of contemporary feminism . . . and a bracing manifesto for revolution.
Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as such? That women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed...
Revolt on Goose Island
The Chicago Factory Takeover and What It Says About the Economic Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Revised and updated, with a new afterword by the author
“There is much talk about ‘audacity’ these days, but true chutzpah is when the workers take over the factory and take on the bank. Kari Lydersen’s invaluable account of the Republic sit-down strike is an instruction manual for...
Federal Reports on Police Killings
Ferguson, Cleveland, Baltimore, and Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
After a series of incidents in which police officers in Chicago, Cleveland, Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, killed four unarmed African Americans--Laquan McDonald, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray, and Michael Brown--resulting in widespread civic unrest and violent protests, the Department of Justice launched...
by Basma Abdel Aziz
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
**"The Queue ... has drawn comparisons to Western classics like George Orwell’s 1984 and The Trial by Franz Kafka. It represents a new wave of dystopian and surrealist fiction from Middle Eastern writers who are grappling with the chaotic aftermath and stinging disappointments of the Arab Spring."...
WHAT WE DO NOW
Standing Up for Your Values in Trump's America
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The National Bestseller
The election of Donald Trump to be the 45th President of the United States of America shocked and dismayed progressives across the country. What We Do Now, a collection of passionate manifestos by some of the country's leading progressives, aims to provide a blueprint...
The Marginalized Majority
Claiming Our Power in a Post-Truth America
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
“This book is a daring intervention to get us back in the game—and a witty, delightfully personal meditation on collective power.” —Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes Everything
Ever since the 2016 election, pundits have been saying our country has never been...
Not on Fire, but Burning
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Twenty-year-old Skyler saw the incident out her window: Some sort of metallic object hovering over the Golden Gate Bridge just before it collapsed and a mushroom cloud lifted above the city. Like everyone, she ran, but she couldn't outrun the radiation, with her last thoughts being of her beloved...
by Heinrich Boll
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Cited by the Nobel Prize committee as the “crown” of Heinrich Böll’s work, the gripping story of Group Portrait With Lady unspools like a suspenseful documentary. Via a series of tense interviews, an unnamed narrator uncovers the story—past and present—of one of Böll’s most intriguing...