New York Review of Books

  • The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll

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    Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law… [more below]

    • Series: New York Review Books Classics
    • Author: Mutis, Alvaro
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 720
    • Publish Date: February 01 2002
    • ISBN10: 0940322919
    • Language: English
  • Autobiography of a Corpse

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    An NYRB Classics Original

    Winner of the 2014 PEN Translation Prize

    Winner of the 2014 Read Russia Prize

    The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s fantastic and blackly comic philosophic

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    • Author: Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: December 03 2013
    • ISBN10: 1590176707
    • Language: English
  • The Day of the Owl

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    A man is shot dead as he runs to catch the bus in the piazza of a small Sicilian town. Captain Bellodi, the detective on the case, is new to his job and determined to prove himself. Bellodi suspects t… [more below]

    • Series: New York Review Books Classics
    • Author: Sciascia, Leonardo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: September 30 2003
    • ISBN10: 159017061X
    • Language: English
  • The Pure and the Impure

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    Colette herself considered The Pure and the Impure her best book, “the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography.” This guided tour of the erotic netherworld with which Colette was so inti… [more below]

    • Author: Colette
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: September 30 2000
    • ISBN10: 094032248X
    • Language: English
  • Living Pictures

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    A poignant collection of short pieces about the author’s hometown, St. Petersburg, Russia, and the siege of Leningrad that combines memoir, history, and fiction.

    Living Pictures refers to the parlor g

    • Author: Barskova, Polina
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: September 06, 2022
    • ISBN10: 1681376598
    • Language: English
  • Contempt

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    Contempt is a brilliant and unsettling work by one of the revolutionary masters of modern European literature. All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly famous–his cool clarity of express… [more below]

    • Series: New York Review Books Classics
    • Author: Moravia, Alberto
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: July 31 2004
    • ISBN10: 1590171225
    • Language: English
  • Valentino and Sagittarius

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    Two novellas about family life and fraudsters by one of the twentieth century’s best Italian novelists.

    Valentino and Sagittarius are two of Natalia Ginzburg’s most celebrated works: tales of love, ho

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    • Author: Ginzburg, Natalia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: September 15 2020
    • ISBN10: 1681374749
    • Language: English
  • Nothing But the Night

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    Stoner author John Williams’s first novel is a searing look at a man’s relationship with his absent father, and how early trauma manifests throughout one’s life

    John Williams’s first novel is a broodi

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    • Author: Williams, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: February 12 2019
    • ISBN10: 1681373076
    • Language: English
  • You’ll Enjoy It When You Get There: The Stories of Elizabeth Taylor

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    AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL

    Elizabeth Taylor is finally beginning to gain the recognition due to her as one of the best English writers of the postwar period, prized and praised by Sarah Waters and Hila

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    • Series: New York Review Books Classics
    • Author: Taylor, Elizabeth
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: September 23 2014
    • ISBN10: 1590177274
    • Language: English
  • Black Wings Has My Angel

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    During the 1950s, Gold Medal Books introduced authors like Jim Thompson, Chester Himes, and David Goodis to a mass readership eager for stories of lowlife and sordid crime. Today many of these writers

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    • Author: Chaze, Elliott
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: January 19 2016
    • ISBN10: 1590179161
    • Language: English
  • Fancies and Goodnights

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    John Collier’s edgy, sardonic tales are works of rare wit, curious insight, and scary implication. They stand out as one of the pinnacles in the critically neglected but perennially popular tradition … [more below]

    • Series: New York Review Books Classics
    • Author: Collier, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 440
    • Publish Date: May 31 2003
    • ISBN10: 1590170512
    • Language: English
  • Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction

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    A compelling ode to the essay form and the great essaysists themselves, from Montaigne to Woolf to Sontag.

    Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love l

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    • Author: Dillon, Brian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: September 18 2018
    • ISBN10: 1681372827
    • Language: English
  • Iza’s Ballad

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    From the author of The Door, selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2015

    An NYRB Classics Original

    Like Magda Szab ‘s internationally acclaimed novel The Door, Iza’

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    • Author: Szabo, Magda
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: October 18 2016
    • ISBN10: 1681370344
    • Language: English
  • Asleep in the Sun

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    Lucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his in-laws (ever-present) and job (he lost it) finds he has a new problem on his hands: his beloved wife, Diana. She

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    • Series: New York Review Books Classics
    • Author: Bioy Casares, Adolfo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 172
    • Publish Date: August 01 2004
    • ISBN10: 1590170954
    • Language: English
  • Red Pyramid: Selected Stories

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    Extended comic turns like The Queue and relentless, mind-bending, genre-shredding extravaganzas like Ice Trilogy have established Vladimir Sorokin as a master of the contemporary novel. It is to Sorok… [more below]

    • Author: Sorokin, Vladimir
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: February 27 2024
    • ISBN10: 1681378205
    • Language: English
  • The Hive

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    Complete and uncensored in English for the very first time, a fragmented, daringly irreverent depiction of decadence and decay in Franco’s Spain written by the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Litera[more below]

    • Author: Cela, Camilo José
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 296
    • Publish Date: March 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 1681376156
    • Language: English
  • Fair Play

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    A New York Review Books Original

    Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation

    Fair Play is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-won and exhi

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    • Author: Jansson, Tove
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: March 15 2011
    • ISBN10: 1590173783
    • Language: English
  • Pitch Dark

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    A strange, thrilling novel about desperate love, paranoia, and heartbreak by one of America’s most singular writers.

    “What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.”

    Pitch Dark is a book abo

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    • Series: Nyrb Classics
    • Author: Adler, Renata
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: March 19 2013
    • ISBN10: 1590176146
    • Language: English
  • The Post-Office Girl

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    Wes Anderson on Stefan Zweig: “I had never heard of Zweig…when I just more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I loved this first book. I also read the The Post-Office Girl. The Gra

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    • Series: New York Review Books Classics
    • Author: Zweig, Stefan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: April 15 2008
    • ISBN10: 1590172620
    • Language: English
  • The Liar

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    Delicately attuned to the complexities of both the natural world and human psychology, this potent classic of twentieth-century Danish literature is narrated by an isolated schoolteacher stuck in a mi

    • Author: Hansen, Martin A.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 248
    • Publish Date: April 04, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1681377187
    • Language: English
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