New York Review Books

New York Review Books (NYRB) is the publishing house of The New York Review of Books. Its imprints are New York Review Books Classics, New York Review Books Collections, and The New York Review Children's Collection.

NYRB Classics is a list of fiction and non-fiction works for all ages and from around the world. Since its first volume, Richard Hughes's High Wind in Jamaica (1999), NYRB Classics has published hundreds of titles. Occasionally, it has published translations of works previously unavailable in English by writers including Euripides, Dante, Balzac and Chekhov. It also publishes fiction by more contemporary writers such as Vasily Grossman, Mavis Gallant, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Georges Simenon, Kenneth Fearing, J. R. Ackerley and Robert Burton. Most of the books include an introduction by a writer or literary critic.^[1] Edwin Frank is the editor of the Classics imprint.^[2]

NYRB Collections is a series of books that collect essays by frequent contributors to The New York Review of Books. With works by writers such as Larry McMurtry, Frank Rich, Mary McCarthy, Freeman Dyson and others, NYRB Collections present treatments of major intellectual, political, scientific, and artistic developments and debates.^[1]

NYRB started in the fall of 1999.^[2] It grew out of another enterprise called the ‘Reader’s Catalog' (subtitle: "The 40,000 best books in print"), which sold books through a catalog.^[2] Founder Edwin Frank and his managing editor discovered many of the books they wanted to print were out of print, so they decided to bring back into print titles in fiction and non-fiction.^[2]

Titles in the NYRB Classics series

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• Act of Passion by Georges Simenon
• The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Álvaro Mutis
• The Adventures of Sindbad by Gyula Krúdy
• Afloat by Guy De Maupassant
• An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie
• After Claude by Iris Owens
• Alfred and Guinevere by James Schuyler
• Alice James: A Biography by Jean Strouse
• Alien Hearts by Guy De Maupassant
• All About H. Hatterr by G. V. Desani
• American Humor: A Study of the National Character by Constance Rourke
• Amsterdam Stories by Nescio
• The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
• Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
• Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson
• Apartment in Athens by Glenway Wescott
• As a Man Grows Older by Italo Svevo
• Asleep in the Sun by Adolfo Bioy Casares
• The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
• Belchamber by Howard Sturgis
• Berlin Stories by Robert Walser
• Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor
• Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
• The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing
• Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby by Geoffrey Wolff
• Blood on the Forge by William Attaway
• The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved by P.V. Glob
• The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards
• A Book of Mediterranean Food by Elizabeth David
• The Book of My Life by Girolamo Cardano
• Boredom by Alberto Moravia
• Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists by Rudolf & Margot Wittkower
• Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
• The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge
• Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
• Chaos and Night by Henry de Montherlant
• Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
• The Child by Jules Valles
• The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
• Clandestine in Chile by Gabriel García Márquez
• Clark Gifford's Body by Kenneth Fearing
• Classic Crimes by William Roughead
• The Colour Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Complete Fiction by Francis Wyndham
• Conquered City by Victor Serge
• Contempt by Alberto Moravia
• Conundrum by Jan Morris
• Corrigan by Caroline Blackwood
• The Cost of Living by Mavis Gallant
• Count D'Orgel's Ball by Raymond Radiguet
• The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual by Harold Cruse
• Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal
• Dante: Poet of the Secular World by Erich Auerbach
• The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia
• Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
• Defeat: Napoleon's Russian Campaign by Philippe-Paul de Ségur
• The Diary of a Rapist by Evan S. Connell
• Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell by Charles Simic
• Dirty Snow by Georges Simenon
• The Doll by Boleslaw Prus
• Don't Look Now by Daphne du Maurier
• The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
• The Education of a Gardner by Russell Page
• The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
• The Engagement by Georges Simenon
• English, August: An Indian Story by Upamanyu Chatterjee
• Envy by Yuri Olesha
• Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia
• An Ermine in Czernopol by Gregor von Rezzori
• Eustace and Hilda by L. P. Hartley
• Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman
• Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Fair Play by Tove Jansson
• The Family Mashber by Der Nister
• Fancies and Goodnights by John Collier
• Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette
• The Fierce and Beautiful World by Andrei Platonov
• Flaubert and Madame Bovary by Francis Steegmuller
• Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
• The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov
• The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
• The Fox in the Attic by Richard Hughes
• The Furies by Janet Hobhouse
• The Gallery by John Horne Burns
• A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor
• The Glass Bees by Ernst Jünger
• The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley
• The Golovlyov Family by Shchedrin
• The Goshawk by T.H. White
• Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood
• Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripedes by Anne Carson
• Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe
• A Handbook on Hanging by Charles Duff
• Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter
• The Haunted Looking Glass by Edward Gorey
• Hav by Jan Morris
• Herself Surprised by Joyce Cary
• A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
• Hindoo Holiday by J. R. Ackerley
• Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
• The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary
• A House and Its Head by Ivy Compton-Burnett
• Ice Trilogy by Vladimir Sorokin
• In Hazard by Richard Hughes
• In Parenthesis by David Jones
• In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm
• Indian Summer by William Dean Howells
• The Inferno of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri
• The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
• Inverted World by Christopher Priest
• Irretrievable by Theodor Fontane
• The Ivory Tower by Henry James
• Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser
• The Jeffersonian Transformation: Passages from the "History" by Henry Adams
• Jejuri by Arun Kolatkar
• The Jokers by Albert Cossery
• The Journal: 1837-1861 by Henry David Thoreau
• Journey into the Past by Stefan Zweig
• A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy
• The Judges of the Secret Court: A Novel About John Wilkes Booth by David Stacton
• Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte
• The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello
• The Letter Killers Club by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
• Letters from Russia by Astolphe de Custine
• Letters: Summer 1926 by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetayeva and Rainer Maria Rilke
• Letty Fox: Her Luck by Christina Stead
• The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling
• Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
• The Life of Henry Brulard by Stendhal
• The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes translated by W. S. Merwin
• The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard by Søren Kierkegaard
• Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
• The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
• The Lord Chandos Letter: And Other Writings by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
• The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by Iona and Peter Opie
• Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang
• Love's Work by Gillian Rose
• Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford
• The Man Who Watched Trains Go By by Georges Simenon
• The Mangan Inheritance by Brian Moore
• Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor
• Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett
• Mary Oliver: A Life by May Sinclair
• Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain by Dwight Macdonald
• Mawrdew Czowchwz by James McCourt
• A Meaningful Life by L. J. Davis
• Memed, My Hawk by Yaşar Kemal
• Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge
• Memoirs of an Anti-Semite by Gregor von Rezzori
• Memoirs of Hecate County by Edmund Wilson
• Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte by Lorenzo Da Ponte
• Memoirs of Montparnasse by John Glassco
• Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Daniel Paul Schreber
• Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
• Men and Gods by Rex Warner
• Miami and the Siege of Chicago by Norman Mailer
• The Middle of the Journey by Lionel Trilling
• The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by Her Daughter by Élisabeth Gille
• Misérable Miracle by Henri Michaux
• Monsieur Monde Vanishes by Georges Simenon
• Monsieur Proust by Céleste Albaret
• A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
• The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese
• Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars
• The Moro Affair by Leonardo Sciascia
• Morte D'Urban by J. F. Powers
• Mouchette by Georges Bernanos
• The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford
• Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg by Nina Berberova
• Mr. Fortune's Maggot and The Salutation by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• The Murderess by Alexandros Papadiamantis
• My Century by Aleksander Wat
• My Dog Tulip by J. R. Ackerley
• My Fantoms by Théophile Gautier
• My Father and Myself by J. R. Ackerley
• Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States by George R. Stewart
• Nature Stories by Jules Renard
• The New Life by Dante Alighieri
• The New York Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
• The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick by Elizabeth Hardwick
• The New York Stories of Henry James by Henry James
• Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham
• Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn by Harvey Swados
• Niki: The Story of a Dog by Tibor Déry
• No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon
• Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock
• The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert by Joseph Joubert
• Novels in Three Lines by Félix Fénéon
• The Old Man and Me by Elaine Dundy
• On the Yard by Malcolm Braly
• The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
• Original Letters from India by Eliza Fay
• The Other House by Henry James
• The Outcry by Henry James
• The Outward Room by Millen Brand
• Pages from the Goncourt Journals by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
• Paris and Elsewhere by Richard Cobb
• Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant
• Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties by Murray Kempton
• Peasants and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
• Pedigree by Georges Simenon
• Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China by David Kidd
• The Peregrine by J. A. Baker
• The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story by Glenway Wescott
• Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
• Poem Strip: Including An Explanation of the Afterlife by Dino Buzzati
• Poems of the Late T'ang edited & translated by A.C. Graham
• Poets in a Landscape by Gilbert Highet
• Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking by Jessica Mitford
• The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
• A Posthumous Confession by Marcellus Emants
• Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman
• Prisoner of Love by Jean Genet
• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
• Proud Beggar by Albert Cossery
• The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer
• The Pure and the Impure by Colette
• The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography by A. J. A. Symons
• The Queue by Vladimir Sorokin
• The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye
• Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories by Randall Jarrell
• Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author by Edward John Trelawny
• Red Lights by Georges Simenon
• Red Shift by Alan Garner
• Renoir, My Father by Jean Renoir
• René Leys by Victor Segalen
• Reveille in Washington: 1860-1885 by Margaret Leech
• Ride a Cockhorse by Raymond Kennedy
• The Rider on the White Horse by Theodor Storm
• Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
• Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps by Emmett Grogan
• The Road: Stories, Journalism and Essays by Vasily Grossman
• Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter
• Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
• The Root and the Flower by L. H. Myers
• Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece by Patrick Leigh Fermor
• A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne
• School for Love by Olivia Manning
• Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
• The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns & Fairies by Robert Kirk
• Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick
• The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam by Osip Mandelstam
• Selected Stories of Robert Walser by Robert Walser
• The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese by Cesare Pavese
• Seven Men by Max Beerbohm
• Shakespeare by Mark Van Doren
• Shelley: The Pursuit by Richard Holmes
• Sheppard Lee, By Himself by Robert Montgomery Bird
• Short Letter, Long Farewell by Peter Handke
• The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
• The Singapore Grip by J. G. Farrell
• Skylark by Dezső Kosztolányi
• The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
• Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
• Slow Homecoming by Peter Handke
• The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
• The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor von Rezzori
• Songs of Kabir by Kabir (translated by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra)
• A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke
• Soul: And Other Stories by Andrey Platonov
• Soul of Wood by Jakov Lind
• The Stalin Front by Gert Ledig
• Stoner by John Williams
• Stones of Aran: Labyrinth by Tim Robinson
• Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage by Tim Robinson
• Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley by Robert Sheckley
• The Stories of J. F. Powers by J. F. Powers
• The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon
• The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems translated by Paul Schmidt
• The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse edited by D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee
• The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
• Summer Cooking by Elizabeth David
• Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• The Sun King by Nancy Mitford
• Sunflower by Gyula Krúdy
• The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermout
• The Tenants of Moonbloom by Edward Lewis Wallant
• That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda
• They Burn the Thistles by Yaşar Kemal
• The Thirty Years War by Veronica Wedgwood
• Three Bedrooms in Manhattan by Georges Simenon
• The Three Christs of Ypsilanti by Milton Rokeach
• The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat by Carl Van Vechten
• A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
• A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor
• To Be a Pilgrim by Joyce Cary
• To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia
• To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson
• The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
• The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands by Patrick Leigh Fermor
• Tropic Moon by Georges Simenon
• Troubles by J. G. Farrell
• The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson
• Tun-Huang by Yasushi Inoue
• Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny by Papa by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton
• Tyrant Banderas by Ramón del Valle-Inclán
• Unforgiving Years by Victor Serge
• The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac
• Unknown Masterpieces: Writers Rediscover Literature's Hidden Classics edited by Edwin Frank
• The Unpossessed by Tess Slesinger
• Varieties of Exile by Mavis Gallant
• The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns
• Victorine by Maude Hutchins
• Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev
• The Voyage That Never Ends by Malcolm Lowry
• W. H. Auden's Book of Light Verse edited by W. H. Auden
• Walkabout by James Vance Marshall
• Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship by Gershom Scholem
• War and the Iliad by Rachel Bespaloff and Simone Weil
• The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
• Warlock by Oakley Hall
• The Waste Books by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
• A Way of Life, Like Any Other by Darcy O'Brien
• The Way of the World by Nicolas Bouvier
• We Always Treat Women Too Well by Raymond Queneau
• We Think the World of You by J. R. Ackerley
• The Wedding of Zein by Tayeb Salih
• What's for Dinner? by James Schuyler
• Wheat That Springeth Green by J. F. Powers
• When the World Spoke French by Marc Fumaroli
• White Walls: Collected Stories by Tatyana Tolstaya
• The Widow by Georges Simenon
• The Wine-Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia
• The Winners by Julio Cortázar
• Wish Her Safe at Home by Stephen Benatar
• Witch Grass by Raymond Queneau
• The Wooden Shepherdess by Richard Hughes
• The World As I Found It by Bruce Duffy
• The World I Live In by Helen Keller
• The World of Odysseus by M. I. Finley
• The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan

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External links

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