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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

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Simenon'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

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Filmmaker 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

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In 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

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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

New York Review Books would like to wish you a Labor Day unlike Steve Hogan's.

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.

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My Dog Tulip

August 24, 2010

My Dog Tulip, J.R. Ackerley's wickedly hilarious ode to his beloved (and uncouth) German Shepherd, was the first title to be published in the NYRB Classics series. Now, eleven years later, we are delighted to announce the release of a new animated feature film based on Ackerley's memoir.

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The Jokers

August 16, 2010

"The day promised to be exceptionally torrid."

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.

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Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion

August 10, 2010

We are thrilled to announce that Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion is now on sale. Stafford, a writer perhaps best known for her marriages to Robert Lowell, Oliver Jensen, and A.J. Liebling, was the heralded author of three novels and many short stories. The Mountain Lion, her second novel, is a devastating, unconventional coming-of-age story.

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A Letter from the Editor

August 3, 2010

"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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