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June 19, 2012, noon |

Mid-June brings the literary birthdays of Mark Van Doren, Maria Dermoût, and Jean-Paul Sartre.

June 13, 2012, 3:49 p.m. |

In his glowing review in the June 9th edition of The Guardian, Nicholas Lezard hails Memoirs of a Revolutionary as “a document that is essential, above all, as a denouncement of oppression, an eye-witness account, written in heat and at speed, but with the talent of a true writer…” He laments only that Memoirs was not published sooner, and concludes, “here it is at last, and anyone who cares about justice and freedom of speech should have a copy.”

June 12, 2012, 1:46 p.m. |

June has many literary birthdays; in just the first few days of the month, NYRB celebrates the lives and works of three very different authors.

June 1, 2012, 6 a.m. |

Just in time for summer book club decisions, we have added three new reading group guides.

May 31, 2012, 3:03 p.m. |

May 29th is the birthday of Terence Hanbury White, author of twenty-six published works, including his famed sequence of Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King. NYRB is proud to have in its Classics series The Goshawk, a book in which White chronicles his attempts to train a hawk. White’s Mistress Masham’s Repose, published by The New York Review Children’s Collection, is the story of a ten-year-old girl who discovers a community of Lilliputians living on a deserted island at the far end of her estate. Maria’s discovery leads to a thrilling adventure in this novel of true literary ingenuity.

May 29, 2012, 3 p.m. |

On Thursday, May 24, the French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation announced the winners of their 25th Annual Translation Prize for excellence in translations of French works into English published in 2011.

May 25, 2012, 11:46 a.m. |

In Thursday’s Washington Post, Michael Dirda wrote about the NYRB Classics title, Store of The Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley.

May 21, 2012, 7:43 a.m. |

From May 7 to May 13th, we are celebrating Children’s Book Week, the longest running literacy initiative in the country. Children’s Book Week was established in 1919 with the belief that children’s literature and literacy have the power to change lives.

May 7, 2012, 3:38 p.m. |

May Day wasn’t the only celebration at the beginning of this month—there are also four literary birthdays: Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Randall Jarrell (1914-1965), Edmund Wilson (1895-1972), Charles Simic.

May 7, 2012, 9:54 a.m. |