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Tom Stoppard’s Infinite Jest
Tom Stoppard’s Infinite Jest
Tom Stoppard spent a career proving that intellect needn’t be humorless, nor art allergic to ideas. To sit through a Tom Stoppard play is to have your head spun, and... Read more...
Claude Lévi-Strauss and The Hidden Grammar of Humanity
Claude Lévi-Strauss and The Hidden Grammar of Humanity
He saw in the world’s rituals not exotic curiosities but the universal grammar by which humans make sense of chaos. Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist who transformed the study of... Read more...
Revealing Marilyn: The Diaries That Never Let Go
Revealing Marilyn: The Diaries That Never Let Go
Aubrey Malone’s Luminous Fictional Memoir of Marilyn Monroe, Arriving 2026 for the Star’s Centenary New York, NY — November 28, 2025 — Casa Carlini is proud to announce the 2026... Read more...
Your Newsletter Just Got an Upgrade
Your Newsletter Just Got an Upgrade
If our usual weekend blog missive never appeared in your inbox, you weren’t mistaken. We did skip a week, but for a reason that, ultimately, makes the whole experience better... Read more...
Where Desire Meets the Page: Carlini Classics Brings New Life to D. H. Lawrence
Where Desire Meets the Page: Carlini Classics Brings New Life to D. H. Lawrence
New York, NY — November 20, 2025 — Carlini Classics, an imprint of Casa Carlini devoted to breathing new life into essential works of world literature, is proud to announce... Read more...
The Uncompromising Visionary: José Saramago and the Art of Dissent
The Uncompromising Visionary: José Saramago and the Art of Dissent
He wrote as if God might be reading over his shoulder, only to shrug and light another cigarette. The Portuguese Nobel laureate, who transformed his country’s literature while infuriating its... Read more...
Robert Nozick: From Libertarian Thunder to Philosophical Grace
Robert Nozick: From Libertarian Thunder to Philosophical Grace
He made his name by arguing that the state should do almost nothing, then made a career showing what philosophy must do to be taken seriously. In the smoldering debates... Read more...
Into the Deep Again: Melville’s Masterworks Surface in Bold New Editions
Into the Deep Again: Melville’s Masterworks Surface in Bold New Editions
New York, NY — November 14, 2025 — Casa Carlini is proud to unveil a striking new series of Herman Melville’s greatest novels, reimagined under the Carlini Classics imprint and... Read more...
Sounding the Depths: The Many Lives of Herman Melville
Sounding the Depths: The Many Lives of Herman Melville
He spent his youth chasing whales and his maturity chasing meaning and caught neither, at least not while he lived. Born in New York City on August 1st, 1819, Herman... Read more...
A Room of Their Own: Virginia Woolf’s Classics Reimagined for a New Generation
A Room of Their Own: Virginia Woolf’s Classics Reimagined for a New Generation
New York, NY — November 12, 2025 — Step into the world of Virginia Woolf, one of the most groundbreaking voices of modernist literature, with Casa Carlini’s newly released Carlini... Read more...
Hedy Lamarr: The Glamorous Genius Who Hopped Into Wireless Communication
Hedy Lamarr: The Glamorous Genius Who Hopped Into Wireless Communication
Today, on November 9th, we celebrate the birthday of Hedy Lamarr, the screen goddess who did far more than just light up the silver screen with her beauty — she... Read more...
Kurt Vonnegut and the Joke That Wasn't Funny
Kurt Vonnegut and the Joke That Wasn't Funny
The reluctant prophet of postwar America laughed at war, progress, and himself, with deadly seriousness. Kurt Vonnegut wrote like a man shrugging at a firing squad. That shrug—equal parts gallows... Read more...