NYRB Classics is pleased to announce the publication of the late Douglas Parmée’s new translation of Jules Renard’s
Histoires Naturelles.
“There is no real equivalent for the French word
esprit which is somewhere between and beyond humor and wit and which is essentially what these short commentaries on the bird and animal world display.” —
Kirkus Reviews
December 5, 2010, 10:03 p.m. |
NYRB Classics make fantastic book group selections. Often with introductions by contemporary writers, they are a fresh alternative for your next meeting.
November 30, 2010, 9:19 a.m. |
New releases from NYRB Classics: now in its first English translation,
Journey into
the Past by the great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig; a masterpiece of historical fiction,
Yasushi Inoue’s
Tun-huang; and a darkly comedic novel,
After Claude, by
Iris Owens. For a limited-time, each of the three November titles is available at 25% off.
November 23, 2010, 10:20 a.m. |
Just released from The New York Review Children’s Collection is Supposing by Alastair Reid, with brand new illustrations by Bob Gill. Supposing is available at a limited-time 25% discount. Or purchase it with Alastair Reid’s Ounce Dice Trice, and get 40% off their combined retail prices.
November 12, 2010, 2:15 p.m. |
NYRB presents
A Month of Writers on Writers
at Barnes & Noble
150 East 86th Street, Upper East Side
November 1, 2010, 1:28 p.m. |
I was a child backyard cook. I made salads of dandelion heads or clover leaves and even baked up
a mud pie or two. But truth be told, I wasn’t very inventive. Like an overworked parent serving
macaroni and cheese night after night, I tended to fall back on a few favorite dishes that required
little thought. Is it any wonder that my dolls, and eventually even the tiniest neighborhood ants,
turned down my invitations to dine?
October 25, 2010, 11:23 a.m. |
Publishing this month are two extraordinary works of fiction. Millen Brand’s
The Outward Room is the story of a young woman’s journey from madness to self-discovery. Bruce Duffy’s
The World As I Found It is a bold novel of ideas, romance, and imagination. Both books are available at limited-time discounts.
October 12, 2010, 3:37 p.m. |
We’re pleased to announce the publication of
The Road, a book of newly translated writings by Vasily Grossman, one of the twentieth century’s greatest authors, and
Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking by Jessica Mitford, one of the best investigative journalists of modern times. Both titles, along with Grossman’s
Life and Fate and
Everything Flows, and Mitford’s
Hons and Rebels, are available at a limited-time 25% discount.
September 30, 2010, 1:38 p.m. |
September 25th marks the beginning of Banned Books Week. The observance began 28 years ago in response to the alarming number of books that are challenged each year by individuals and governments.
September 24, 2010, 5:12 p.m. |
Andrew Roberts chose two NYRB Classics for his Five Best of “World War II First Hand Accounts” list in Saturday’s
The Wall Street Journal. Both
Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte and
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman are on the list.
September 21, 2010, 11:58 a.m. |