About New York Review Books
New York Review Books publishes NYRB Classics, NYRB Collections, and the New York Review Children's Collection.
NYRB Classics is an innovative list of outstanding fiction and nonfiction from all ages and around the world. Beginning in 1999 with the publication of Richard Hughes's High Wind in Jamaica, more than 200 NYRB Classics have been published. They include new translations of canonical figures such as Euripides, Dante, Balzac, and Chekhov; fiction by modern and contemporary masters such as Vasily Grossman, Mavis Gallant, and Upamanyu Chatterjee; tales of crime and punishment by George Simenon and Kenneth Fearing; masterpieces of narrative history and literary criticism, poetry, travel writing, biography, cookbooks, memoirs, and unclassifiable classics on the order of J. R. Ackerley's My Dog Tulip and Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. Published in handsome uniform trade paperback editions, almost all NYRB Classics also feature an introduction by an outstanding writer, scholar, or critic of our day. Taken as a whole, NYRB Classics may be considered a series of books of unrivaled variety and quality for discerning and adventurous readers.
What the press has said about NYRB Classics ...
"Here comes [a] wake-up call, from The New York Review of Books. In 1999 it launched the most ambitious publishing program in America. Today, with 100 books reissued in its Classics Series, we can also call it the most spectacular. Its roster of authors is a literary who's who: Balzac and Chekhov, Stendhal, Pasternak and Colette, Henry James and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Its titles encompass such universally acclaimed works as the Richard Hughes novel A High Wind in Jamaica and Robert Burton's classic omnibus, The Anatomy of Melancholy. In addition to wealths of insight and writerly skill, these books share something else: All were long out of print. They are reminders that even high achievement is no guarantee of immortality in the crowded realm of literature, where the laws of supply and demand, of time and space, hold greater sway than aesthetic justice." J. Peder Zane, Raleigh News & Observer
"In these faith-testing times, I've found something that deserves unwavering beliefthe New York Review of Books publishing house. Nearly everything it does is nearly perfect. (Can you imagine saying that about, say, one's political party?) When you buy O'Brien's "A Way of Life, Like Any Other," you'll become an NYRB lobbyist yourself.... You'll marvel at the editorial choicesforgotten travelogues that turn out to be journeys themselves, nonfiction ephemera rescued from ferociously unfair obscurity and deceptively short novels, like O'Brien's, that remind you of the reason you like reading to begin with. The reason, of course, is that it's a rare pleasure to find something that breathes new life into the same old stories that life constantly re-enacts." Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket) Newsday
"NYRB Classics is a terrific reprint linereally amazingly fine in its choice of titles and in the design of the books." Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
"For the past two years, The New York Review of Books has been reissuing out-of-print cult classics. Be grateful for second chances and head to the shore with any one of these slim paperbacks." Town and Country
"What a pleasure it is to find these classics newly edited by NYRB Classics, and introduced intelligently and informatively." Bomb
"Congratulations to NYRB Classics ... they have been putting out an extraordinarily good list lately, and I have been torn as to which one to choose." Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
"We all owe the people at NYRB Classics a great debt of thanks." John Garvey, Commonweal
"Overall the collection is faultless. Once you have discovered the series it's as if you've just gained an incredibly well-read friend who consistently lends you obscure yet highly enjoyable books.... Collecting them can become compulsive." Vogue
"A miraculous and timely mass resurrection." Elle
"For the past four decades, The New York Review of Books has tirelessly championed liberal causes. It comes, therefore, as a welcome surprise that the magazine's new book-publishing imprintNew York Review Books Classicsis performing a nonpartisan service, excellently." The National Review
"The New York Review of Books Classics Series is one of the most exciting recent developments in publishing.... Simply reading through the list from beginning to end would provide a rare education." The Boston Phoenix
NYRB Collections bring together essays by frequent contributors to The New York Review of Books that present incisive treatments of major contemporary intellectual, political, scientific, and artistic developments and debates.
The New York Review Children's Collection is a discriminating reprint program offering great books for children of all ages in beautiful hardbound editions.
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Edwin Frank
Editorial Director, NYRB Classics
Michael Shae
Editor, NYRB Collections
Sara Kramer
Managing Editor, NYRB Classics
Jenie Hederman
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Marketing & Sales Director
Jacquelyn Moorad
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