Deborah Eisenberg | The New York Review of Books

Awful But Joyful

In her autobiographical Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen asks us neither to condemn nor to forgive—only to look.

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency

by Tove Ditlevsen, translated from the Danish by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman

The Faces

by Tove Ditlevsen, translated from the Danish by Tiina Nunnally

March 25, 2021 issue

Threats Real and Imaginary

November 19, 2020 issue

Tyrannical Days

Dogeaters

by Jessica Hagedorn

June 11, 2020 issue

The Driest Eye

The pure, entrancing, and alarming voice of Natalia Ginzburg

The Dry Heart

by Natalia Ginzburg, translated from the Italian by Frances Frenaye

Happiness, as Such

by Natalia Ginzburg, translated from the Italian by Minna Zallman Proctor

Family Lexicon

by Natalia Ginzburg, translated from the Italian by Jenny McPhee, with an afterword by Peg Boyers

July 18, 2019 issue

Louise Lovely in The Social Buccaneer (1916), from Bill Morrison’s Dawson City: Frozen Time

After the Gold Rush

Bill Morrison’s transfixing documentary ‘Dawson City: Frozen Time’

Dawson City: Frozen Time

a documentary film written and directed by Bill Morrison

August 16, 2018 issue

Robert B. Silvers in his office at The New York Review of Books, early 1980s

On Robert Silvers

Nineteen writers remember The New York Review’s editor.

May 11, 2017 issue

Utility footwear worn on a wartime evening out, London, 1940

Henry Green’s Universe

The experience of reading twentieth-century British novelist Henry Green is far more animating than the ordinary and extends far beyond the usual confines: it can be almost physical, as if the thought or sensation expressed on the page were being generated by one’s own, not the author’s, mind.

October 18, 2016

A Blinding Need for Each Other

Magda Szabó’s ‘The Door’

The Door

by Magda Szabó, translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix, with an introduction by Ali Smith

April 7, 2016 issue

A Wonderful Novel and an Impossible Challenge

Jenny Erpenbeck’s ‘The End of Days’

The End of Days

by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky

April 2, 2015 issue

A young girl in Soviet Georgia, 1947; photograph by Robert Capa

Cross Off and Move On

A story

July 12, 2012 issue

Detail from ‘The Seventh Thousanth and Eighth Hundredth and Sixty Third Performance at the Diving Board L.G.H., 1911,’ an album of snapshots by the photographer F. Holland Day. This photograph and the one on page 58 are from Verna Posever Curtis’s Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography, which has just been published by Aperture

Recalculating

A story

July 14, 2011 issue

Child backlit on steps, 1920s, by the Hungarian photographer Martin Munkacsi

Quiet, Shattering, Perfect

Skylark

by Dezso Kosztolányi, translated from the Hungarian by Richard Aczel, with an introduction by Péter Esterházy

April 8, 2010 issue

Wells Tower, Brooklyn, February 2009; photograph by Hatnim Lee

The World We Live In

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

by Wells Tower

May 28, 2009 issue

Becoming Susan Sontag

Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947–1963

by Susan Sontag, edited by David Rieff

December 18, 2008 issue

The Genius of Péter Nádas

Fire and Knowledge: Fiction and Essays

by Péter Nádas, translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein

July 17, 2008 issue