Casa Carlini

12/20/2025

Feeling lucky to share that we’ve just published Franz Kafka’s “Selected Stories” using Ian Johnston’s superb translations—graciously offered by the Canadian translator himself. It’s now available in book form through Casa Carlini

Where the familiar tilts into the uncanny. This collection of Franz Kafka’s finest stories draws you into a world where ordinary life bends just enough to expose its hidden tensions—rooms that feel too small, laws that loom too large, and messages that vanish into silence. From the haunting pati...

12/17/2025

Before a book reaches your hands, there’s unseen labor: ideas tested, voices shaped, care applied at every step. This is where books are really made.

Every year at Casa Carlini begins the same way: with ideas that are still unformed, voices still finding their shape, and projects that exist more as intention than artifact. A writer is circling a subject that won’t let go. A manuscript needs time, care, and an editor willing to sit with it patie...

12/16/2025

Murray Kempton wrote like conscience had a byline—elegant, unsparing, morally awake. Revisiting his voice feels urgent again.

He dressed like a Victorian undertaker, wrote like a 19th-century Jesuit in love with jazz, and filed columns with the precision of a man polishing cathedral glass, even when writing about mob trials, labor rackets, or petty City Hall betrayals. He wore a three-piece suit to cover police riots, type...

12/15/2025

Shirley Jackson’s genius was making the ordinary feel unsafe. An essay on The Housewife and the quiet terror of domestic expectation.
https://casacarlini.com/shirley-jackson-the-housewife-unmasked/

12/14/2025

What can John Jay teach us about executive power today? A look back at the constitutional roots of authority—and what they reveal about its expansion in the Trump era.

John Jay, America’s first Chief Justice and one of the least sung of the Founding Fathers, was born on this day in 1745. He lacked the operatic flair of Hamilton’s polemics and the lofty idealism of Jefferson, yet he possessed something rarer in public life: a principled aversion to excess. Jay ...

12/14/2025

Faulkner, unbound. We’re proud to unveil bold new Carlini Classics editions—carefully restored, beautifully designed, and made for readers who still believe books should feel like events.
https://casacarlini.com/faulkner-unbound-casa-carlini-unveils-bold-new-carlini-classics-editions-of-an-american-master/

12/13/2025

I still love the feel of real books. I also love my Kindle—for late nights, long trips, and the quiet joy of always having a library close by. A small reflection on reading, in all its forms.
https://casacarlini.com/why-i-love-my-kindle-even-though-i-still-love-real-books/

12/12/2025

Charles Dickens like you’ve never held him before. Casa Carlini’s reimagined editions bring his greatest stories into a new era with elegant, modern design—timeless tales, beautifully reborn. https://casacarlini.com/dickens-rebound-casa-carlini-unveils-reimagined-carlini-classics-editions-of-literatures-great-storyteller/

12/11/2025

Robert Koch took on the invisible and changed medicine forever. A story of curiosity, courage, and the battles we never see.

https://casacarlini.com/the-war-on-the-invisible-robert-koch-and-the-birth-of-modern-microbiology/

12/10/2025

Before coding was a word, Ada Lovelace was doing it. Visionary, rebel, poet of computation.

Ada Lovelace saw the future of machines long before they existed, and wrote it into being. In an era when women’s intellects were often confined to parlors and social expectations, Ada Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron, glimpsed infinity in a mechanical engine. Born in 1815, she became a v...

12/05/2025

“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one.” Didion's compulsive, precise gaze defined an era's disquiet. How her style became a way of seeing.

She saw through America like few others, and wrote it down with the unblinking gaze of a realist and the style of a poet sharpened by loss. Joan Didion wrote with the precision of a scalpel and the detachment of someone already mourning what she described. In her sentences, clarity was a weapon, and...