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The New York Review Abroad: Fifty Years of International Reportage
edited by Robert B. Silvers, with prologues by Ian Buruma
Over the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international war, revolution, and event of consequence by dispatching the world’s most brilliant writers to send back eyewitness accounts. The New York Review Abroad not only brings together twenty-seven of the most riveting of these pieces but includes prologues that update and reassess the political situation they describe.
Among the pieces included are: Susan Sontag’s personal narrative of staging Waiting for Godot in war-torn Sarajevo; V.S. Naipaul’s visit to Argentina, which includes a mesmerizing account of the cult of Evita; Ryszard Kapuscinski’s terrifying description of being set on fire while running roadblocks in Nigeria; a fellow dissident’s chilling narrative of Andrei Sakharov and Elena ...
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Hickory
Palmer Brown
The New York Review Children’s CollectionWhen Hickory moves from the grandfather clock where he lives with the rest of his mouse family to the open country, he discovers friendship, the changing seasons and the sometimes joyous, sometimes melancholy, cycle of life. Hickory is not only a lovely tale, it is a field guide to the common plants and flowers of spring, summer, and autumn.
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Transit
Anna Seghers, introduction by Peter Conrad, afterword by Heinrich Böll, translated from the German by Margot Bettauer Dembo
NYRB ClassicsA young German concentration-camp escapee finds himself in Marseille with a cache of papers and travel documents belonging to another man—who just happens to be dead. “Anna Seghers in Transit has painted a grim and crowded picture of Marseille when it was still a port of possible escape for the fugitives of all Europe…[Transit’s] very air of confusion and blind groping is consonant with its theme.”—Christian Science Monitor
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The Green Man
Kingsley Amis, introduction by Michael Dirda
NYRB Classics“A thoroughly contemporary ghost story … in the uncomplicated, old-fashioned sense. As one might expect from the author of Lucky Jim, The Green Man is also an extremely funny book, filled with slapstick, parody and satire. Indeed, the success of this short novel depends very much on the balance that Amis maintains between fear and laughter.”—The New York Times
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The Alteration
Kingsley Amis, introduction by William Gibson
NYRB ClassicsIn Kingsley Amis’s virtuoso foray into alternate history, it is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. “One of the best—possibly the best—alternate-worlds novels in existence.”— Philip K. Dick
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NYRB celebrates two literary birthdays in May!
May 17, 2013
May 20th marks the birthday of Honoré de Balzac, the inventor of the modern realistic novel. With his keen eye for detail and his unflinching assessment of character, Balzac has been considered a literary forbearer of Flaubert, Proust, and James. On May 22nd we celebrate the birthday of the multitalented Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930).
NYRB Poets Event at Unnameable Books
May 15, 2013
Unnameable Books and NYRB Poets will celebrate the publication of Alexander Vvedensky's An Invitation for Me to Think with translators Eugene Ostashevsky and Matvei Yankelevich. The reading, which will be followed by a reception, will take place at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn on Friday, May 17, at 7pm.
A discussion of the genre novels of Kingsley Amis at the Half King
May 2, 2013
On Monday, May 6th writers Lev Grossman, Nathaniel Adams, and Jen Vafidis will discuss Kingsley Amis’s newly reissued works of genre fiction, the science fiction/alternative world novel The Alteration and the ghost story The Green Man. Join us at 7pm at the Half King Bar & Restaurant at 505 W 23rd Street in New York City.
More NYC events celebrating Alexander Vvedensky
April 19, 2013
On April 20th, Poets House will host a colloquium to celebrate the publication of An Invitation for Me to Think. On April 22nd, the Poetry Project will host a reading.
Renata Adler at The Center for Fiction
April 11, 2013
On Tuesday April 16th at 7pm, Renata Adler will read from and talk about her two classic novels, Speedboat and Pitch Dark, at The Center for Fiction in New York City.
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