New York Review Books

On the 130th anniversary of Stefan Zweig‘s birth, we would like to pay tribute to this great Austrian writer and draw your attention to the four books we published in the NYRB Classics series: Chess Story, Journey into the Past, The Post-Office Girl, and Beware of Pity. In spring 2012 we will publish Zweig’s novella Confusion.

November 28, 2011, 4:32 p.m. |

This week, the National Book Awards bestowed the 2011 prize for nonfiction to Stephen Greenblatt for his masterful work, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. Greenblatt is a distinguished scholar who has previously published many outstanding works on English literature, including the bestselling Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare.

In May 2012, NYRB Classics will publish Sir Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici and Urne-Burial, edited and introduced by Stephen Greenblatt and Ramie Targoff.

November 18, 2011, 4:38 p.m. |

Today we celebrate the 70th birthday of the incomparable writer and illustrator Daniel Pinkwater, author of about one hundred books as unique and funny as he is, by calling attention to his personal favorite book, Lizard Music, the story of Victor, a boy who, in exploring the nearby city of Hogboro while his parents are away, meets the Chicken Man, who is keen on the lizard (yes, lizard) musicians who appear on Victor’s television after the broadcast of the late-late movie. Victor and the Chicken Man travel to the lizards’ floating island, where the strange is fantastic and inspired—all adjectives that could be used to describe Pinkwater himself.

November 15, 2011, 11:45 a.m. |

Published in 1947, The Gallery was one of the earliest works of post WWII fiction. It was a critically-acclaimed bestseller and was a trailblazer for books like Catch-22 to follow. Set in occupied Naples in 1944—where author John Horne Burns had been commissioned as an army intelligence officer to investigate crimes committed by U.S. troops—the book captures the shock the war dealt to the preconceptions and ideals of the victorious Americans. It also provides one of the first unblinking looks at gay life in the military.

November 11, 2011, 4:05 p.m. |

Poet, editor, and University of Allahabad professor Arvind Krishna Mehrotra will be reading from his dazzling new translation of Kabir’s poetry at two events in New York City on November 2nd & 3rd. Following the attempts of Ezra Pound and Robert Bly, he has revitalized the work of this legendary North Indian bhakti poet, which explodes with passion, satire, metaphysical ideas, and upside-down language.

October 27, 2011, 12:23 p.m. |

Join John Summers, editor of Masscult and Midcult: Essays Again the American Grain, for a series of discussions about Dwight Macdonald. The events will be held in NYC, Chicago, Cambridge, and Washington DC this month.

October 7, 2011, 8:11 a.m. |

Now available in its first English translation is Élisabeth Gille’s The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irène Némirovsky by Her Daughter. Gille’s imagined autobiography of her mother was first published in France in 1992.

September 20, 2011, 12:48 p.m. |

BBC Radio 4 will broadcast its adaptation of Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate in thirteen episodes, from September 18 - 25.   The cast includes Kenneth Branagh, Greta Scacchi, Janet Suzman, David Tennant and Harriet Walter.

September 14, 2011, 3:40 p.m. |

We are pleased to announce the paperback release of Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell by former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic.

September 6, 2011, 1:52 p.m. |

We are pleased to announce the publication of Hav, a novel by the great Jan Morris. Hav consists of two parts: Last Letters from Hav, originally published in 1985, and its sequel, Hav of the Myrmidons, published in 2006.

August 26, 2011, 5:25 p.m. |