New York Review of Books
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By: Szabo, Magda
Katalin Street
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cartWINNER OF THE 2018 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE
From the author of The Door, selected as one of the New York Times “10 Best Books of 2015,” this is a heartwrenching tale about a group of friends and lovers t- Author: Szabo, Magda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1681371529
- Language: English
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Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartIn 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the rest of his life. In his madness, the world was revealed… [more below]
- Author: Schreber, Daniel Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: January 31 2000
- ISBN10: 094032220X
- Language: English
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The Milk of Dreams
$18.95HardcoverRead moreIn English for the first time, a wild and darkly funny book that combines Surrealist painter Leonora Carringon’s fantastical writing and illustrations for children
The maverick surrealist Leonora Carri… [more below]- Author: Carrington, Leonora
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 1681370948
- Language: English
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The Black Spider
$15.95PaperbackAdd to cartAn NYRB Classics Original
It is a sunny summer Sunday in a remote Swiss village, and a christening is being celebrated at a lovely old farmhouse. One of the guests notes an anomaly in the fabric of th- Author: Gotthelf, Jeremias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1590176685
- Language: English
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By: Handke, Peter
Short Letter, Long Farewell
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartBy Nobel Prize Winner Peter Handke
Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke’s novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of gene
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Handke, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 1590173066
- Language: English
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By: Genet, Jean
Prisoner of Love
$24.95PaperbackRead moreStarting in 1970, Jean Genet–petty thief, prostitute, modernist master–spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people… [more below]
- Author: Genet, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: January 31 2003
- ISBN10: 1590170288
- Language: English
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By: XI, XI
Mourning a Breast
$18.95PaperbackRead moreBy Xi Xi, part of the first generation of writers raised in Hong Kong, a wise and amiably written book of autobiographical fiction on the author’s experience with breast cancer–from diagnosis to trea… [more below]
- Author: XI, XI
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378221
- Language: English
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By: Buzzati, Dino
The Singularity
$15.95PaperbackAdd to cartIn this prophetic allegory about artificial intelligence by a renowned figure of twentieth-century Italian literature, a modest university professor becomes involved in a remote and enigmatic project … [more below]
- Author: Buzzati, Dino
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378000
- Language: English
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The Lily in the Valley
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cartA new translation of one of Balzac’s finest novels, this tale of misguided passion centers on a young aristocrat who falls into a cloaked, coded entanglement with an older countess–a relationship tha… [more below]
- Author: Balzac, Honor? de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1681377985
- Language: English
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By: Horne, Alistair
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
$22.95PaperbackRead moreThe Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on F… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Horne, Alistair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 1590172183
- Language: English
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NADA
$16.95PaperbackRead moreThis tour de force political thriller, told in Manchette’s signature noir style, follows a group of far left extremists in the throes of post-1968 disillusionment.
The thrill of 1968 is long over, an- Author: Manchette, Jean-Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1681373173
- Language: English
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By: Pavese, Cesare
Selected Works
$22.95PaperbackRead more“There is only one pleasure, that of being alive. All the rest is misery,” wrote Cesare Pavese, whose short, intense life spanned the ordeals of fascism and World War II to witness the beginnings of I… [more below]
- Author: Pavese, Cesare
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 31 2001
- ISBN10: 0940322854
- Language: English
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By: M. K. Brown
Let’s Go Swimming with Mr. Sillypants
$17.95HardcoverRead moreA silly, whimsical book about dreaming and getting over one’s fears by a celebrated American cartoonist and illustrator.
Mr. Sillypants is going to learn how to swim tomorrow. He’s excited! It’s about- Author: Brown, M. K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377454
- Language: English
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By: Duvoisin, Roger
Day and Night
$18.95HardcoverAdd to cartA classic picture book about the special friendship between an owl and a dog, written and illustrated by a master of children’s literature.
Day and Night is a classic Duvoisin tale about two unlikely- Author: Duvoisin, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1681377942
- Language: English
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By: Masefield, John
The Midnight Folk
$19.95HardcoverRead moreThe Midnight Folk introduces readers to Kay Harker, the orphaned boy who is also the hero of John Masefield’s classic Christmas fantasy, The Box of Delights. Kay lives in a vast old country house, and… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Children’s Collection
- Author: Masefield, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 14 2008
- ISBN10: 1590172906
- Language: English
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By: Madhur Jaffrey
Seasons of Splendour: Tales, Myths and Legends of India
$27.95HardcoverRead moreA vibrant collection of Indian myths and legends illustrated in beautiful watercolors and told by one of India’s sparkling personalities, Madhur Jaffrey.
Seasons of Splendour is a richly illustrated t- Author: Jaffrey, Madhur
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 04, 2022
- ISBN10: 1681377047
- Language: English
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By: Masefield, John
The Box of Delights
$21.95HardcoverAdd to cartStrange things begin to happen the minute young Kay Harker boards the train to go home for Christmas and finds himself under observation by two very shifty-looking characters. Arriving at his destinat… [more below]
- Series: Kay Harker
- Author: Masefield, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 23 2007
- ISBN10: 1590172515
- Language: English
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By: Rimbaud, Arthur
The Drunken Boat: Selected Writings
$20.00PaperbackRead moreA new translation of the best and most provocative work by France’s infamous rebel poet, in a bilingual edition
Poet, prodigy, precursor, punk: the short, precocious, uncompromisingly rebellious caree- Author: Rimbaud, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376504
- Language: English
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The Oceans of Cruelty: Twenty-Five Tales of a Corpse-Spirit: A Retelling
$17.95PaperbackRead moreOne of the oldest books in the world, The Oceans of Cruelty is a sequence of twenty-five tales from India whose central theme is the dark power of storytelling. At the start, a young king falls into t… [more below]
- Author: Penick, Douglas J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1681377667
- Language: English
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By: Malcolm, Janet
In the Freud Archives
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartIncludes an afterword by the author
In the Freud Archives tells the story of an unlikely encounter among three men: K. R. Eissler, the venerable doyen of psychoanalysis; Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, a f- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Malcolm, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 30 2002
- ISBN10: 159017027X
- Language: English









