On Tuesday, November 27, at 7pm, join us at Powerhouse Arena (28 Adams St, Brooklyn, NY) for a celebration of the reissue of Saul Steinberg's remarkable graphic work The Labyrinth, available from NYR Comics. Liana Finck, Françoise Mouly, and Joel Smith will be in a conversation moderated by Bill Kartalopolous.

In his introduction to The Labyrinth, Nicholson Baker writes, "Steinberg was a lyricist of the metal nib—a twirler of nonverbal non sequiturs. He dipped his bitterness—and his delight, and his pearl-handled, inescapable sadness—into an ink bottle, and he went to work every morning." Read the rest of Baker's introduction excerpted in The New York Times.

On Sunday, November 11, at 1pm, Yvan Alagbé, one of France's most renown comic book artists and author of NYR Comics's Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures, will give a talk at the Chicago Humanities Festival on why the graphic form is so well suited to conveying true stories in all their honesty and depth. A book signing will follow the conversation. The talk will be held at Venue SIX10, 610 S Michigan Ave, Chicago.

This program is presented in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Chicago and the Alliance Française Chicago.

Eric Karpeles, author of Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski and introducer and translator of Józef Czapski's Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp, will discuss the work of Czapski at events in New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Point Reyes Station, San Francisco, and Corte Madera. 

Please join us at one of the following events with Karpeles: 

Thursday, November 8, 2018
7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
McNally Jackson Soho, 52 Prince St., New York, NY 10012, USA
with Antonia Lloyd-Jones, and Irena Grudzińska-Gross
 
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
NYU La Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003, USA
with Anka Muhlstein
 
Thursday, November 15, 2018
7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Solid State Books, 600F H St. NE, Washington, DC 20002, USA
with Jan Pytalski
 
Friday, November 16, 2018
6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
57th Street Books, 1301 E 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637, USA
 
Friday, November 23, 2018
7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Point Reyes Books, 11315 CA-1, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956, USA
 
Thursday, November 29, 2018
7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, 4519, 261 Columbus Ave., San Francisco, CA 94133, USA
with Cynthia Haven
 
Saturday, December 8, 2018
4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA 94925, USA
with Robert Hass

NYRB Classics also publishes Józef Czapski's Inhuman Land: Searching for the Truth in Soviet Russia, 1941-1942. 

We hope you will join us for events celebrating the publication of Uwe Johnson's masterpiece, Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, translated from the German by Damion Searls, at the Goethe-Institut, 30 Irving Place, New York. 

On Thursday, November 1, at 7pm, Anniversaries translator Damion Searls will be in conversation about Johnson's depiction of 1960s New York with Renata Adler and Liesl Schillinger. Visit the Goethe-Institut website for details. 

On Friday, November 2, and Saturday, November 3, the Goethe-Institut will screen Margarethe von Trotta's TV miniseries adaptation of Anniversaries. The first episode will screen at 7pm on 11/2, and will be introduced by film journalist Anne-Katrin Titze. Episodes 2-4 will begin screening at 5pm on 11/3. Each episode is 90 minutes long. More details are available here. 

Chloe Garcia Roberts, editor and one of the translators of the NYRB Poets title Li Shangyin, was recently interviewed by Sinovision about her work with the poems of the Late Tang writer. Garcia Roberts explains how she fell in love with the Classical Chinese language while sitting in on a class on Chinese history and literature. She also speaks to how she was drawn to Li Shangyin's lush and abstract poems, poems that had rarely been translated into English. Watch the full interview below.

On the weekend of September 15th and 16th, NYRB will have booths at the Brooklyn Book Festival and the Brooklyn Book Festival Children’s Day.

The Brooklyn Book Festival Children’s Day will be held at MetroTech Commons on Saturday, September 15th, from 10-4. We will be at booth #30 with a selection of our children’s books available at discounted prices.

The Brooklyn Book Festival will be held on Sunday, September 16th, from 10-6, at Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza, 209 Joralemon Street. Find us at booth numbers 409 and 410, where we will have discounted books and free issues of The New York Review of Books.

We were thrilled to read Cynthia Zarin's New Yorker review of Iris Origo's A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939-1940. Zarin writes:

It’s almost impossible to imagine a better time to read A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939–1940...Trenchant, intelligent, and written with a cool head...it can be read not only as a historical document but as an urgent message, a stealth paper airplane sent to us from a shadowed past...One of the vital interests of the diary is watching the alert, perspicacious mind of a supremely intelligent person coming alive to the situation around her.

Read the rest of the review here, and learn more about A Chill in the Air, which includes an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, and an afterword by Origo's granddaughter Katia Lysy, here. NYRB Classics also publishes Origo's War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944, with an introduction by Virginia Nicholson.