New York Review Books (Paperback)
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Wish Her Safe at Home
$18.95 Read moreRachel Waring is deliriously happy. Out of nowhere, a great-aunt leaves her a Georgian mansion in another city–and she sheds her old life without delay. Gone is her dull administrative job, her mousy… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
- Author: Benatar, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 19 2010
- ISBN10: 159017335X
- Language: English
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The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories
$17.95 Read more“The Wedding of Zein” unfolds in the same village on the upper Nile where Tayeb Salih’s tragic masterpiece Season of Migration to the North is set. Here, however, the story that emerges through the ov… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
- Author: Salih, Tayeb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1590173422
- Language: English
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On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry
$15.95 Read moreOn Being Blue is a book about everything blue–sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things–and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary A… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
- Author: Gass, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1590177185
- Language: English
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They Burn the Thistles
$24.95 Read moreTurkey’s greatest novelist, Yashar Kemal is an unsurpassed storyteller who brings to life a world of staggering violence and hallucinatory beauty. Kemal’s books delve deeply into the entrenched social… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
- Author: Kemal, Yashar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: November 21 2006
- ISBN10: 1590171853
- Language: English
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On the Abolition of All Political Parties
$15.95 Add to cartAn NYRB Classics Original
Simone Weil–philosopher, activist, mystic–is one of the most uncompromising of modern spiritual masters. In “On the Abolition of All Political Parties” she challenges the- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
- Author: Weil, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1590177819
- Language: English
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Jakob Von Gunten
$16.95 Add to cartThe Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, e… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback) #10
- Author: Walser, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0940322218
- Language: English
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Lolly Willowes: Or the Loving Huntsman
$17.95 Add to cart“[The book] I’ll be pressing into people’s hands forever is “Lolly Willowes,” the 1926 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner. It tells the story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for he
- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback) #05
- Author: Warner, Sylvia Townsend
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: September 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0940322161
- Language: English
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The True Deceiver
$16.95 Add to cartA New York Review Books Original
Winner of the Best Translated Book Award
Deception–the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others–is the subject of this, Tove Jansson’s most unnerving and unp
- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
- Author: Jansson, Tove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 08 2009
- ISBN10: 1590173295
- Language: English
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Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
$17.95 Add to cartNow in paperback.
Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 16 2008
- ISBN10: 1590172531
- Language: English
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Last Words from Montmartre
$16.95 Add to cartAn NYRB Classics Original
When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind her unpublished masterpiece, Last Words from Montmartre. Unfol- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
- Author: Miaojin, Qiu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 1590177258
- Language: English
