New York Review of Books
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By: Mutis, Alvaro
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
$29.95PaperbackAdd to cartMaqroll 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
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Autobiography of a Corpse
$19.95PaperbackRead moreAn 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- Author: Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1590176707
- Language: English
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The Day of the Owl
$15.95PaperbackAdd to cartA 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
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By: Colette
The Pure and the Impure
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartColette 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
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By: Polina Barskova
Living Pictures
$17.95PaperbackRead moreA 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
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By: Alberto Moravia
Contempt
$17.95PaperbackRead moreContempt 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
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Valentino and Sagittarius
$15.95PaperbackAdd to cartTwo 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- Author: Ginzburg, Natalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1681374749
- Language: English
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By: Williams, John
Nothing But the Night
$15.95PaperbackAdd to cartStoner 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- Author: Williams, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1681373076
- Language: English
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By: Elizabeth Taylor
You’ll Enjoy It When You Get There: The Stories of Elizabeth Taylor
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartAN 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- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Taylor, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 23 2014
- ISBN10: 1590177274
- Language: English
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By: Elliott Chaze
Black Wings Has My Angel
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartDuring 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
- Author: Chaze, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1590179161
- Language: English
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By: Collier, John
Fancies and Goodnights
$24.95PaperbackRead moreJohn 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
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By: Dillon, Brian
Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction
$18.95PaperbackRead moreA 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- Author: Dillon, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1681372827
- Language: English
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By: Szabo, Magda
Iza’s Ballad
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartFrom 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’- Author: Szabo, Magda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1681370344
- Language: English
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Asleep in the Sun
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cartLucio, 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
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Bioy Casares, Adolfo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: August 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1590170954
- Language: English
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Red Pyramid: Selected Stories
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cartExtended 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
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The Hive
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartComplete 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
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By: Jansson, Tove
Fair Play
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartA 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
- Author: Jansson, Tove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 1590173783
- Language: English
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By: Adler, Renata
Pitch Dark
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartA 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- Series: Nyrb Classics
- Author: Adler, Renata
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1590176146
- Language: English
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By: Stefan Zweig
The Post-Office Girl
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartWes 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
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Zweig, Stefan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 15 2008
- ISBN10: 1590172620
- Language: English
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By: Martin A. Hansen
The Liar
$16.95PaperbackRead moreDelicately 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














