Melville House imprint: 317 books
by Odon Von Horvath
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Written in exile while in flight from the Nazis, this dark, bizarre evocation of everyday life under fascism is available for the first time in thirty years.
This last book by Ödön von Horváth, one of the 20th-century’s great but forgotten writers, is a dark fable about guilt, fate, and the...
by Jeremy P. Bushnell
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
“With The Insides, Jeremy P. Bushnell doesn’t so much mash genres together as slice them apart to find the filets. It’s a literary urban fantasy with sharp things to say about the way we live now, darkened by a touch of Scandinavian thriller: rich and urgent and weird, a novel that defies categorization...
I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed By Me
Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Updated with New Information and Additional Patches
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They’re on the shoulders of all military personnel: patches showing what a soldier’s unit does. But what if that’s top secret?
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“A glimpse of [the Pentagon’s] dark world through a revealing lens—patches—the kind worn on...
Death by Video Game
Danger, Pleasure, and Obsession on the Virtual Frontline
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
"The finest book on video games yet. Simon Parkin thinks like a critic, conjures like a novelist, and writes like an artist at the height of his powers—which, in fact, he is." —Tom Bissell, author of Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
On January 31, 2012, a twenty-three-year-old...
by Hans Fallada
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Wolf Among Wolves is a sprawling saga of the collapse of a culture--its economy and government--and the common man's struggle to survive it all. Set in Weimar Germany soon after Germany's catastrophic loss of World War I, the story follows a young gambler who loses all in Berlin, then flees the chaotic...
Every Man Dies Alone
Special 10th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
This never-before-translated masterpiece—by a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble when he wouldn’t join the Nazi Party—is based on a true story.
It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple...
Living in a World that Can't Be Fixed
Reimagining Counterculture Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
“This is a book about counterculture, and that’s a problem . . . “
So begins Curtis White’s thrilling call for the revitalization of counterculture today.
The problem, White argues, is twofold: first, most of us think of counterculture as a phenomenon stuck in the 1960s, and,...
Viva la Pizza!
The Art of the Pizza Box
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
“New Yorkers are particular about pizza, and no one has a more well-formed opinion than Scott Wiener.”
—Newsday
One of the world’s foremost pizza experts presents more than 100 weird and wild pizza box designs
Since the origins of to-go pizza, pizzerias and pizza chains have...
The Day the Renaissance Was Saved
The Battle of Anghiari and da Vinci's Lost Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
It was a battle that change the course of history, and was immortalized in a massive painting by Leonardo da Vinci that was thought lost for centuries . . . until now.
On a sweltering day in June 1440, near the Tuscan town of Anghiari, the simmering conflict among Italy’s principal powers...
Antifa
The Antifascist Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
The National Bestseller
“Focused and persuasive... Bray’s book is many things: the first English-language transnational history of antifa, a how-to for would-be activists, and a record of advice from anti-Fascist organizers past and present.”—THE NEW YORKER
"Insurgent activist...
Julia Child: The Last Interview
and Other Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
A delightful collection of interviews with the beloved Julia Child--"The French Chef," author, and television personality who revolutionized home cooking in 20th century America
This delightful collection of interviews with "The French Chef" Julia Child traces her life from her first stab at...
The Duke's Table
The Complete Book of Vegetarian Italian Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
An encyclopedic collection of vegetarian recipes from Italy—learn how to make all of the classic dishes without meat
“Even though man can draw all he needs in the way of nourishment from a mere handful of seeds and fruit, he must not give up a proper meal.”
—Enrico Alliata
Enrico...
The Old World Kitchen
The Rich Tradition of European Peasant Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
"The best cookbook no one's ever heard of."
—MARK BITTMAN
"Through her eloquent writing and delicious recipes, Elizabeth Luard is able to bring us back in touch with the sources of real nourishment. This is a wonderful, inspiring and important book." —ALICE WATERS, founder...
The People Reloaded
The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
A definitive collection of essays and documents on the movement behind Iran's mass protests
Since June of 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran has seen the most dramatic political upheaval in its three decades of rule. What began as a series of mass protests over the official results of a presidential...