The Wrath and the Wanderer: Joel Christensen on Homer, 3,000 Years Later
According to the ancient historian Plutarch, Alexander the Great never traveled without a copy of Homer's Iliad. Said to have been annotated by his tutor, Aristotle, the volume reportedly rested beside his bed, alongside his dagger, throughout his military campaigns. Whether every detail of that story is true is impossible to know. What is beyond dispute is that Alexander saw in Achilles not merely a literary hero, but a model for his own life. Few books have shaped a reader so profoundly, and few poets have shaped history so lastingly as Homer.
Rafts, Runaways, and Republics: Carlini Classics Returns Mark Twain to the American Imagination
Casa Carlini Invites Readers and Patrons to Support Independent Publishing Through Tax-Deductible Contributions
Interview | The Novel Behind the Monster: Susan Wolfson on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”
Fearful in Gaza by Abdalhadi Alijla is a haunting, intimate memoir.
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The Book That Shook the World
On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie walked onto a stage in Chautauqua, New York, to give a lecture on keeping writers safe from harm. He never got to deliver it. A man rushed the stage and stabbed him more than a dozen times in front of a stunned audience. Rushdie survived, but he lost sight in one eye and the use of a hand. The attacker had been born the year after a foreign leader first called for the author's death.
After the Guns, the Silence: Carlini Classics Reintroduces Erich Maria Remarque
The Many Versions of Hardy: Richard Nemesvari on Editing a Career
Fearful in Gaza by Abdalhadi Alijla is a haunting, intimate memoir.
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When the Historian Becomes the Story: A Conversation with Alan Strauss-Schom
Alan Strauss-Schom has devoted himself to resurrecting the lives of others. His biographies of Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon III, and the great dramas of the Napoleonic era established him as one of the foremost narrative historians of his generation, a scholar whose meticulous archival research has always been matched by a novelist's eye for character and scene. His work reminds us that history is not merely a sequence of events, but an accumulation of human choices, ambitions, disappointments, and improbable turns of fate.
Casa Carlini acquires exclusive rights to historian Alan Strauss-Schom’s works for its Storia imprint
Lost in Translation: The Books We Never Get to Read
The Joy in Joyce: Vicki Mahaffey on Reading James Joyce Differently
Fearful in Gaza by Abdalhadi Alijla is a haunting, intimate memoir.
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America at 250: Tested, Not Trumped
America turns 250 today, but the mood is not very celebratory. The Trump administration has not honored the Constitution so much as pushed against it. That shows how fragile American democracy can be when a president sees limits on his power as something to get around, not something to respect.
From Exile To Immortality: Casa Carlini Announces Simply Nabokov For Fall 2026
From Campus to Press: Casa Carlini Opens Its Doors to the Next Generation of Publishing Professionals
From the Archives | John Moffat on Albert Einstein's Centenary Theory and Beyond
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Gideon Levy: The Man Who Won’t Let the Occupation Be Occupied Territory
Every week, while most Israelis encountered the West Bank through security briefings and blurred television clips, Gideon Levy was in living rooms their owners would never invite them into—watching soldiers search wardrobes, listening to fathers count the checkpoints between home and work, taking notes as children learned the names of army units before they learned the names of birds. Then he drove back to Tel Aviv and tried to get those rooms onto the page.
The Sixpence That Changed Publishing Forever
Songs, Stories, and Starlight: Carlini Classics Brings Rabindranath Tagore Back to the World
From the Archives | Graham Farmelo on Paul Dirac's “Remarkable” Life and Work
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Simply Caesar
The man who changed the world and the empire he built, simply told.
Julius Caesar, one of history's most iconic and controversial figures, is renowned for his military conquests, political prowess, and the legacy of the Roman Empire. Yet his life remains complex and multi-faceted, marked by both extraordinary achievements and turbulent conflicts. In Simply Caesar, historians J. David Markham and Matthew Zarzeczny provide an accessible and engaging guide to Caesar's remarkable life, demystifying the man behind the legend and offering a fresh perspective on his influence in shaping Western history. From the Rubicon to the Ides of March, from the conquest of Gaul to the affair with Cleopatra, this book strips away the myth and reveals the brilliant, ruthless, and endlessly fascinating strategist who never stopped reaching for more.
Why It Matters
- Reframes Julius Caesar not just as a conqueror, but as a political innovator who reshaped the Roman world and set the stage for empire.
- Cuts through myth and legend to reveal the real dynamics of power, ambition, and reform at the end of the Roman Republic.
- Illuminates how Caesar’s rise and fall continue to shape modern ideas of leadership, populism, and the fragility of democratic systems.
About the Authors
J. David Markham is a leading Napoleonic scholar, president of the International Napoleonic Society, and author or contributor to ten books, including Napoleon for Dummies and The Road to St Helena. He has appeared in documentaries, lectured globally, co-created the “Napoleon 101” podcast, and was named a Knight of the French Academic Palms in 2014. He has also received top honors from both the International Napoleonic Society and the Napoleonic Historical Society.
Matthew D. Zarzeczny is a Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society and adjunct instructor at Ashland, Kent State Stark, and John Carroll University. He is the author of Meteors That Enlighten the Earth and founder of the website historyandheadlines.com.
Publisher Casa Carlini
Imprint Simply Charly
Author J. David Markham & Matthew D. Zarzeczny
Publication Date October 23, 2025
Paperback $14.99
ISBN 978-1-943657-92-6
Hardback $19.99
ISBN 978-1-943657-58-2
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The Book That Had to Go on Trial
In December 1933, a federal judge in New York was asked to rule on a question that courts had long preferred to avoid: whether a work of undeniable literary ambition could nonetheless be banned for obscenity. The book in question was James Joyce's Ulysses. The answer, when it finally came, would reshape American publishing for generations.
Casa Carlini Launches the Inaugural Carlini Prize for 2028
Murder by Design: Casa Carlini’s Enigma Imprint Reintroduces Agatha Christie
From the Archives | Rosa Mayorga on the Life and Work of Charles Sanders Peirce
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Bellow at Full Volume
Saul Bellow carved a singular path through 20th-century American fiction. While others channeled Whitman’s sprawl or Hemingway’s stoicism, Bellow unleashed a new idiom—caffeinated, erudite, and relentlessly self-interrogating. His heroes didn’t walk through plots; they thought through them at hurricane speed, dragging Nietzsche, Marx, and the deli counter into the same breathless monologue. Here was the novel not as story but as thinking in real time—a high-wire act between the lecture hall and the comedy club. No one before him had made anxiety so exhilarating.
Why Bookstores Get to Send Books Back
Set Joyce Free: Carlini Classics Returns to the Books That Changed Literature
From the Archives | John Banville on Influences and Fashioning “a Singular Voice”
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Keeping Marilyn in Mind: A Hundred Years of a Woman the World Can’t Forget
On a gray January afternoon in 1955, a secretary at the Actors Studio on West 44th Street in Manhattan looked up to see a familiar face—too familiar, in fact, for that cramped little lobby. Marilyn Monroe, the most photographed woman in the world, had come alone to enroll in Lee Strasberg’s legendary acting workshop, the same crucible that had shaped Marlon Brando and James Dean. No press, no studio escort, no staged publicity shots—just Marilyn, signing herself in like any other student who wanted to get better at the work.
Casa Carlini Launches “Casa Carlini Points” Rewards Program to Deepen Reader Engagement
City of Fragments: Carlini Classics Reintroduces John Dos Passos
From the Archives | Helge Kragh on How Paul Dirac “Changed the Course of Fundamental Physics”
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The Marilyn Diaries
The woman the world adored.
The voice she never got to share.
In this intimate and inventive work of creative fiction, Aubrey Malone, offers a haunting portrait of Marilyn Monroe through imagined diary entries. Blending fact with lyrical invention, The Marilyn Diaries reveals the private thoughts of Norma Jeane as she becomes the mythic Marilyn: a woman adored for her beauty, yet plagued by loneliness, longing, and a past she could never outrun.
Why It Matters
• A reimagined confessional that blends fact and fiction to startling effect.
• The Marilyn Diaries unfolds through fictional diary entries that give voice to Norma Jeane’s transformation into the mythic Marilyn, illuminating the private pain behind the public persona.
• Aubrey Malone crafts a portrait of Monroe that is as vulnerable as it is vivid.
About the Author
Aubrey Malone is an Irish writer known for his imaginative blend of biography and fiction, with a particular focus on iconic cultural figures. His previous work, The Elvis Diaries, was praised for its poignant insight and inventive narrative voice. In The Marilyn Diaries, Malone once again gives voice to a legend, capturing the fragile humanity behind the fame.
Publisher Casa Carlini
Imprint Vita
Author Aubrey Malone
Publication Date April 15, 2026
Paperback $18.99
ISBN 978-1-943657-47-6
Hardback $27.99
ISBN 978-1-943657-28-5
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