Browse Books | New York Review Books

Detailed View | List View

Title	Author	Description
The Stammering Century Stammering Century	Gilbert Seldes Seldes	19th-century America bred fads, cults, and new religions as perhaps no other time or place ever has. Writing without judgement, but with plenty of verve, Seldes profiles the charismatic and often off-kilter leaders of these movements and sketches their hidden histories. Contributors: Greil Marcus
Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist Going to the Dogs	Erich Kästner Kästner	Berlin, 1929: There's little hope, but plenty of amusement to be had if you know where to look. Jakob Fabian, 32, “at present an advertising copywriter," isn't one to mope; he and his friends prowl the city's cabarets, exchanging barbs and looking for girls. "Graceful, vivid and distinguished … a little masterpiece of pathos and calamity.”—Michael Sadleir Contributors: Rodney Livingstone , Cyrus Brooks
Beirut, I Love You: A Memoir Beirut, I Love You	Zena el Khalil Khalil	The story of Zena, a young artist who has fallen under the spell of a city that both attracts and repels her and threatens to engulf her in war, grief, and love affairs.
Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture Waiting for	Daniel Mendelsohn Mendelsohn	Daniel Mendelsohn—hailed by The Economist as one of the finest critics writing in the English language today—brings together a selection of his recent critical essays.
Pinocchio (Illustrated) Pinocchio	Carlo Collodi	This edition of Carlo Collodi's original, madcap tale is accompanied by more than 50 full-page watercolors by acclaimed painter Fulvio Testa. "This translation revives the sardonic wit and black humour of the original." — London Times Contributors: Umberto Eco , Fulvio Testa , Geoffrey Brock
He Was There From the Day We Moved In He Was There From the Day We Moved In	Rhoda Levine Levine	Does the dog want dinner? a lollipop? a stray cat? conversation? No, what the dog wants is—a name! But you can’t just choose any name for a grown-up dog. No, it has to be the right name. Contributors: Edward Gorey
Lucky Jim Lucky Jim	Kingsley Amis Amis	This campus comedy launched Kingsley Amis's career and made him the reluctant voice of a generation. Neither its vitriol nor its wit has dulled with the years. "Remarkable for its relentless skewering of artifice and pretension, Lucky Jim also contains some of the finest comic set pieces in the language." —Olivia Laing, The Observer Contributors: Keith Gessen
The Old Devils Old Devils	Kingsley Amis Amis	Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize, and considered by his son Martin to be Kingsley Amis’s greatest achievement, The Old Devils is delightful proof that neither Amis nor his characters mellowed in old age. In fact, a placid life is just the thing that Amis denies his old devils, whose routines of nattering, complaining, and drinking, are thrown into chaos when an old friend and rival (now a successful writer) returns to town with a new and entrancing wife. Contributors: John Banville
The Other Other	Thomas Tryon Tryon	The Other, alongside Rosemary's Baby, is a signal work of midcentury horror. In Tryon's first novel, everyday life—not monsters or ghouls—is revealed to be the source of the truly terrifying. “A lyrical, impressive horror story that is a cross between The Bad Seed and John Cheever’s The Wapshot Chronicles.”—LA Times Contributors: Dan Chaon
Cheerful Cheerful	Palmer Brown Brown	Cheerful is a city mouse who spends his days frolicking in the church where he lives with his siblings, but he longs for the country, where mice run free. Palmer Brown's filigreed drawings turn this story into an instrument of enchantment as glorious as the sugar-spun Easter egg that conveys Cheerful to his pastoral home.