New York Review Books

We are pleased to announce the publication of four new NYRB Classics this month, all available at a limited-time 30% discount.

John Banville includes Act of Passion by Georges Simenon in his selection of “novels of young love and the perilous flush of infatuation” in the “Five Best” column in The Wall Street Journal.

It’s officially fall: school is back, vacations are over, and the temperature is dropping. While getting ready to spend more time indoors, take a look at these three beautiful but very different new offerings from The New York Review Children’s Collection that will captivate restless children while at the same time entertaining parents: Cheerful by Palmer Brown; Wolf Story by William McCleery with illustrations by Warren Chappell; and He Was There From the Day We Moved In by Rhoda Levine with illustrations by Edward Gorey—all at 30% off for a limited time.

In last weekend’s Wall Street Journal, Meghan Cox Gurdon wrote “The shape and feel of a book still matters, thank goodness, and there is something illimitably satisfying about the snug, matte editions produced for The New York Review Children’s Collection.” In her review of Wolf Story she applauded the elegance of original illustrations by graphic artist Warren Chappell and wrote “What sings, though, is the lively dialogue in the story by William McCleery.” Wolf Story, she concluded,“ is a romp and a laugh and a nostalgic joy to read aloud.”

New York Review Books is pleased to announce the September 4th publication of The Water Theatre by Lindsay Clarke, the first title in NYRB Lit, a new e-book series devoted to publishing contemporary literary fiction and narrative non-fiction from around the world. All of the books in the series have been published to great acclaim in their own countries and we’re happy to be able to make these titles available to US readers. NYRB Lit titles are available from most e-book retailers.

If you’d like to know more about the great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, read Leo Carey’s “A Critic At Large” column in the August 27 issue of The New Yorker.

Good riddance to hurricane season, we’ll all be glad when its over and done, but in the meantime if you find yourself ill at ease, why not hunker down and pick up a hurricane-infused novel from NYRB Classics?

The NYRB summer sale includes books for all reading tastes and for readers of all ages. If your order is $75.00 or more, we’ll send you our NYRB Classics Tote Bag for free!

The weather’s not cooling down, but neither are our celebrations of literary birthdays!

There is further cause to celebrate Bastille Day as NYRB now has several French history titles with another due this fall. Additionally, Richard Howard was this year’s co-recipient of the French-American Foundation & Florence Gould Foundation Translation Award for When the World Spoke French by Marc Fumaroli.