Paul Auster died late last month at the age of 77. His novels, memoirs, and poems were renowned and read all around the world. He was also a gifted translator of French literature. His first book...
Three finalists have been announced for the 2024 EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) Literature Prize , and the list includes the recent NYRB Classic The Wounded Age and Easte...
An exhibition of AI-assisted artwork by Vladimir Sorokin, BLUE LARD #cancelrussianculture, is on view until May 4, 2024 at the WhiteBox art space in New York City. Based around the writer’s not...
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A conversation between NYRB editor Edwin Frank and the writer Scott Sherman, titled “How the Story Turns Out,” was published this week in the magazine The Point. Among other subjects, they d...
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The finalists for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes have been announced, and two NYRB titles are on the list: Susie Boyt’s Loved and Missed (New York Review Books) in the Fiction categor...
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David G. Compton, who wrote the NYRB Classic The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe under the name D. G. Compton, died in November 2023 at the age of 93, as The Guardian reports . More
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The Vielmetter gallery in Los Angeles is currently hosting a solo exhibition of paintings by Celia Paul, artist and author of the New York Review Books memoirs Self-Portrait and Letters to Gwen...
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The end of the year always brings in a torrent of best-of lists, and in 2023, NYRB titles appeared on several of them. The books selected for praise came from across all of our imprints. Congratu...
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Brian Dillon’s Affinities: On Art and Fascination (New York Review Books) and Konstantin Paustovsky’s The Story of a Life (NYRB Classics), both of which were released this past spring, hav...
On October 20, a new film adaptation of John Williams’s novel Butcher’s Crossing , published by NYRB Classics in 2007, will be released in select movie theaters across the U.S. Directed by Ga...
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Valerie Stivers, the author behind The Paris Review's popular “Eat Your Words” column , recently cooked from and wrote about a deep cut from the NYRB Classics series: Summer Cooking by El...
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The recent NYRB Classics reissue of Anton Shammas’s 1988 novel Arabesques (trans. Vivan Eden) has been the subject of a number of positive write-ups over the past few months in publications suc...
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The filmmaker Christian Petzold, who adapted Anna Seghers’s Transit (NYRB Classics) to screen in 2018, is coming out with a new movie this year called Afire . The film is set in a beach town i...
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Two major reviews of new and old NYRB Classics have been published in the last few weeks. The first, by Alex Ross in The New Yorker , discusses the life and work of Ernst Jünger, including the N...
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Françoise Gilot, the celebrated painter and author of three works of nonfiction, including the memoir Life with Picasso (NYRB Classics), about her ten-year relationship with Pablo Picasso, died...
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The New York Review Comics edition of Syd Hoff’s The Ruling Clawss (originally published under the pseudonym A. Redfield) was written up in Jacobin this week in an appreciative article titled ...
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Jay Jackson’s Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos , published last December by New York Review Comics, has been nominated for an Eisner Award in the category “Best Archival Collection...
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There are several events upcoming to celebrate Brian Dillon’s new book from NYRB, Affinities: On Art and Fascination, which forms a trilogy of sorts with his Essayism and Suppose a Sentence. Re...
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Two standout NYRB events from earlier this winter have been archived and posted online. The first, “The Intimate Worlds of Colette,” was part of the Mechanics’ Institute’s three-day ce...
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Phillip Lopate, author of the forthcoming New York Review Books essay A Year and a Day , and Lore Segal, author of the forthcoming NYRB Kids book Tell Me a Mitzi, were both announced as newly ele...
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We included an “unofficial and rather unorthodox gift guide” in our December monthly newsletter and decided to repost it here. Find books for some very specific people in your life using the ...
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