Join us at the Astoria Bookshop (31-29 31st Street, Astoria) this Thursday, November 17, at 7pm, for a panel on essay writing with Kirsty Gunn, Daniel Mendelsohn, and Phillip Lopate, with Michele Filgate as moderator. The evening will also be a celebration of the US publication of Gunn's book My Katherine Mansfield Project. For more information, visit Astoria Bookshop's website.

Join Mark Lilla, author of The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction, for these upcoming conversations with special guests about the origins of reactionary politics and the 2016 Presidential Election. Books will be available for sale and to be signed at each of these events.

Wednesday, November 2, 7pm
Community Bookstore
143 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Mark Lilla and George Packer discuss the 2016 Presidential Election. Free. More info here.

Thursday, November 3, 7pm
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 5th Ave (at 34th St), New York City
Mark Lilla delivers the 2016 Irving Howe Memorial Lecture. The event will be live-streamed here. Presented with the Center for Humanities. Free. Click here for more info.

If you missed Ruth Scurr's events for her book John Aubrey, My Own Life, in New York and Cambridge, you can still hear her discuss and read from the book at events this week and next. 

Tonight, September 22, at 7 p.m., Scurr will be in conversation with fellow historian Amanda Foreman at Book Culture on Columbus (450 Columbus Ave, New York). Read more about the event here. 

On Monday, September 26, at 7:30 p.m., Scurr will discuss John Aubrey, My Own Life with Anthony Grafton at the Free Library of Philadelphia (1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia). More information here. 

Join NYRB at this year's Brooklyn Book Festival, starting with Children's Day on September 17th and then the main festival on September 18th. 

On Children's Day (9/17) find us at booth 20, in the Metrotech Commons of Downtown Brooklyn, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., where we'll have an assortment of our children's books at discounted prices.

On Sunday, September 18th, stop by booths 309 and 310 at the main Brooklyn Book Festival at 209 Joralemon Street, where we’ll have books at discounted prices, free copies of the latest issue of The New York Review of Books, and more.

At 2 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, cartoonist and Almost Completely Baxter author Glen Baxter will join cartoonists Ben Katchor (Cheap Novelties) and Emily Flake (Mama Tried) on a panel titled "Hey, Some Comics Are Still Funny!" moderated by "Connie to the Wonnie" web cartoonist Connie Sun. The panel will be held at the Brooklyn Historical Society Auditorium, 128 Pierrepont Street. 

This Saturday, July 30, come visit us at the 2016 Small Press Flea outside the Brooklyn Public Library at 10 Grand Army Plaza. The Flea is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and we will have giveaways and books at discounted prices.

We were pleased to receive a starred review from School Library Journal for The New York Review Children's Collection edition of Otfried Preussler's The Robber Hotzenplotz: 

"Both wonderfully timeless and quirky, this unconventional adventure will delight its audience and belongs in most collections.” —School Library Journal

The New York Review Children's Collection publishes Preussler's Krabat and the Sorcerer's Mill, The Little Water Sprite, The Little Witch, and The Robber Hotzenplotz. To learn more about Otfried Preussler, one of Germany's most beloved children's authors, visit his author page. 

GQ Magazine recently listed D.G. Compton's dark, futuristic novel, The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe, as a "must read" for the month of July. Kevin Nguyen writes of Compton's book, "Considering Katherine Mortenhoe was originally published in 1974, the book is eerily relevant in a world where we’ve surrendered so much of our personal information to tech giants like Facebook and Google. It also reads like something written today, which is impressive for something written yesterday about tomorrow."

See the entire must-read list here.

This Father's Day, share books from NYRB with your dad. We recommend Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny by Papa, Nathaniel Hawthorne's tender and funny reflection on three weeks spent with his five-year-old son, with an introduction by Paul Auster. For read alouds, we suggest William McCleery's Wolf Story (with illustrations by Warren Chappell), a book about a father, his son, and a perpetual bedtime (and other times) story about a not-so-canny wolf and his desired dinner, a hen.