NYRB Classics
My Dog Tulip
J.R. Ackerley, introduction by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Ackerley has written a book that is a profound and subtle meditation on the strangeness abiding at the heart of all relationships.
"This is one of the greatest masterpieces of animal literature." —Christopher Isherwood
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Pedigree
Georges Simenon, introduction by Luc Sante, translated from the French by Robert Baldick
NYRB ClassicsSimenon's longest and most personal novel: “Simenon brings to life in Pedigree the whole sensory world of his childhood in Liège. His words capture the sounds, sights, tastes, smells, and textures of the city… Simenon does for Liège what the young Joyce did for Dublin: he evokes the city with such immediacy that we feel we've walked in its streets.” —Lucille Frackman Becker
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Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littín
Gabriel García Márquez, preface by Francisco Goldman, translated from the Spanish by Asa Zatz
NYRB ClassicsFilmmaker Miguel Littín fled Chile when the dictator Pinochet came to power in 1973. In 1985 he returned, disguised as a businessman, to make a documentary exposing the dire conditions endured by his countrymen.
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The Jokers
Albert Cossery, introduction by James Buchan, translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis
NYRB ClassicsIn an unnamed Middle-Eastern city in a country ruled by tyrannical buffoon, a small band of renegades concocts a plot to fight power with parody. “Cossery's books are saturated with a mordant, savage humor which makes one laugh and weep at the same time.” —Henry Miller
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The Mountain Lion
afterword by Kathryn Davis, Jean Stafford
NYRB Classics“The Mountain Lion remains a brilliant achievement, an exploration of adolescence to set beside Carson McCullers’s masterwork The Member of the Wedding.” —Joyce Carol Oates
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A Labor Day Trip with Georges Simenon
August 31, 2010
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The protagonist of Georges Simenon's dark psychological thriller Red Lights, Steve is one of the millions of Americans hitting the highway on the Friday before Labor Day weekend. He and his wife, Nancy, are traveling from New York City to Maine, where their children are at summer camp. But somewhere in the midst of the thick traffic and heavy drinking of the trip, Steve "goes into the tunnel": a mental fugue characterized by pathological uncertainty, dangerous strangers, and the uncanny.
My Dog Tulip
August 24, 2010
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The Jokers
August 16, 2010
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So Albert Cossery begins his novel, The Jokers, a tale that, from its opening sentence, is packed with charged wit and barbed satire. The Jokers, an NYRB Classics Original appearing in its first English translation, has been making headlines since its July publication.
Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion
August 10, 2010
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A Letter from the Editor
August 3, 2010
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"The month of January. Night time. North wind blowing. The fire in the hearth was going out." This is where Alexandros Papadiamantis's The Murderess begins—in cramped, dark quarters on a dirtpoor island in the Aegean Sea. A man snores, a sleepless woman tosses and turns, a baby coughs and cries. It is a hundred years ago, but it could be anytime, and it goes on. Hadoula, a woman of sixty or so, an old witch her neighbors say, is trying to rock the baby, her granddaughter, to sleep, even as she gives way to "bitter wandering thoughts." All her life Hadoula has shown herself to be a clever, industrious, tough woman, and yet now it strikes her:
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