NYRB NEWS
Eric Karpeles Book Tour
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.
Celebrating 'Anniversaries' at the Goethe-Institut
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 interviewed about her love for Li Shangyin
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.
Visit us at the Brooklyn Book Festival and BBF Children's Day
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.
'A Chill in the Air' reviewed by Cynthia Zarin for The New Yorker
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.
NYRB Poets Showcase at the New York City Poetry Festival
Paul Eprile wins the French-American Foundation's 2018 Translation Prize
We are excited to announce that Paul Eprile, translator of the NYRB Classics edition of Jean Giono's Melville: A Novel, has been named one of the winners of the 2018 Translation Prize, awarded by the French-American Foundation. Learn more about the prize here.
NYR Comics, Yvan Alagbé, and Chris Reynolds at Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF)
New York Review Comics will be attending the 2018 Toronto Comic Arts Fair (TCAF) and a couple of NYRC artists will be there for events and book signings as well. Visit the NYR Comics tables in the exhibit hall (#109 and #110) to see the latest NYRC titles and talk to NYRC staff and check out the following events with Yvan Alagbé, author of Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures, and Chris Reynolds, author of The New World: Comics from Mauretania.
BOOK SIGNINGS at NYR Comics table:
Yvan Alagbé
Saturday, May 12, from 2-3pm
Sunday, May 13, from 2-3pm
Chris Reynolds
Saturday, May 12, from 12-1pm
Sunday, May 13, from 1-2pm
SPECIAL EVENTS:
Saturday, May 12, 11am: "Contemporary French Comics" panel w/ Yvan Alagbé in the High Park Ballroom #2/3 in the Marriott Bloor Yorkville.
Saturday, May 12, 11am: Spotlight on Chris Reynolds & Seth, editor and designer of The New World, in the Toronto Reference Library, 1st Floor.
Saturday, May 12, 4pm: Spotlight on Yvan Alagbé with Mark Nevins, in the High Park Ballroom #1 in the Marriott Bloor Yorkville.
Sunday, May 13, 11am, "Finding Your Publishing Niche," a panel with Yvan Alagbé, Francoise Mouly, and others in the High Park Ballroom #1 in the Marriott Bloor Yorkville.
For more information, visit our events page.