New York Review of Books
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Heaven’s Breath: A Natural History of the Wind
$19.95 Add to cartA “comprehensive and fascinating study” of how wind has shaped the world as we know it, affecting all aspects of human and natural life—from geography to political history, plant life to psychology, … [more below]
- Author: Watson, Lyall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1681373696
- Language: English
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Generations: A Memoir
$14.95 Add to cartA moving family biography in which the poet traces her family history back through Jim Crow, the slave trade, and all the way to the women of the Dahomey people in West Africa.
Buffalo, New York. A f- Author: Clifton, Lucille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1681375877
- Language: English
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A Time to Keep Silence
$15.95 Add to cartWhile still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classic memoirs, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. During World War II, he fought with l… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Leigh Fermor, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 30 2007
- ISBN10: 1590172442
- Language: English
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An African in Greenland
$19.95 Add to cartT t -Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland–and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the cou… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Kpomassie, T?t?-Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 31 2001
- ISBN10: 0940322889
- Language: English
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A Chance Meeting: American Encounters
$19.95 Add to cartWeaving a tapestry of creativity and circumstance, this lauded chronicle of the many links and serendipitous meetings between giants of American culture–from Henry James to Gertrude Stein to Zora Nea… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378108
- Language: English
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Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States
$24.95 Add to cartGeorge R. Stewart’s classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the nation’s peoples. More than half a century later, Name… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Stewart, George R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1590172736
- 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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Picture
$17.95 Add to cartA classic look at Hollywood and the American film industry by The New Yorker‘s Lillian Ross, and named one of the “Top 100 Works of U.S. Journalism of the Twentieth Century.”
Lillian Ross worked at Th- Author: Ross, Lillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1681373157
- Language: English
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Exhausted on the Cross
$16.00 Add to cartA much-anticipated follow-up to Nothing More to Lose, this is only the second poetry collection translated into English from a vital voice of Arabic literature.
“We drag histories behind us,” the Pale- Author: Darwish, Najwan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1681375524
- Language: English
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Kaputt
$19.95 Add to cartCurzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on the Eastern Front, Malaparte se… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Malaparte, Curzio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1590171470
- Language: English
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The Right to Be Lazy: And Other Writings
$15.95 Read moreNow in a new translation, a classic nineteenth-century defense for the cause of idleness by a revolutionary writer and activist (and Karl Marx’s son-in law) that reshaped European ideas of labor and p… [more below]
- Author: Lafargue, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376822
- Language: English
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Sweet Shop: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2023
$18.00 Read moreAmit Chaudhuri, one of the most exploratory writers of English-language fiction, has also written and published poetry that shares many of the concerns of his prose while sounding a distinct and memor
- Author: Chaudhuri, Amit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377004
- Language: English
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The Inferno of Dante Alighieri
$16.95 Add to cartThis startling new translation of Dante’s Inferno is by Ciaran Carson, one of contemporary Ireland’s most dazzlingly gifted poets. Written in a vigorous and inventive contemporary idiom, while also re… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 31 2004
- ISBN10: 1590171144
- Language: English
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Bresson on Bresson: Interviews, 1943-1983
$19.95 Read moreNow in paperback, a collection of interviews with a French cinematic titan–covering subjects such as adaptation, the effects of capitalism on art, and the importance of intuition–selected from a per… [more below]
- Author: Bresson, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377802
- Language: English
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Love’s Work
$16.95 Read moreLove’s Work is at once a memoir and a work of philosophy. Written by the English philosopher Gillian Rose as she was dying of cancer, it is a book about both the fallibility and the endurance of love,… [more below]
- Author: Rose, Gillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 1590173651
- Language: English
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Divorcing
$16.95 Read moreNow back in print for the first time since 1969, a stunning novel about childhood, marriage, and divorce by one of the most interesting minds of the twentieth century.
Dream and reality overlap in Div- Author: Taubes, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 1681374943
- Language: English
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Three Summers
$17.95 Add to cartA tender story about three sisters coming of age in Greece over the course of three summers, now available after being out of print for over twenty years.
Three Summers is the story of three sisters … [more below]- Author: Liberaki, Margarita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1681373300
- 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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Kilometer 101
$17.95 Read moreA new collection of short fiction and nonfiction by a Russian master of bittersweet humor, dramatic irony, and poignant insights into contemporary life.
The town of Tarusa lies 101 kilometers outside- Author: Osipov, Maxim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376865
- Language: English
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Other Worlds: Pilgrims, Peasants, Spirits, Saints
$17.95 Read moreStories about the occult, folk religions, superstition, and spiritual customs in Russia by one of the most essential twentieth-century writers of short fiction and essays.
Though best known for her co- Author: Teffi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1681375397
- Language: English
