The Wall Street Journal named Leon Garfield's Shakespeare Stories, published by The New York Review Children's Collection, one of the “Best Books to Give Children." Meghan Cox Gurden writes:

"Leon Garfield’s Shakespeare Stories brings together sophisticated retellings of 21 plays, aimed at readers 10 and older, that Garfield (1921-96) originally published in two volumes. In these lively and evocative pages a child will hear Shakespeare’s poetry set in prose that will lay the groundwork for many a future enchanted evening at the theater."

Learn more about the book here. The New York Review Children's Collection also publishes Smith: The Story of a a Pickpocket and The Complete Bostock and Harris by Leon Garfield. 

Please join us for events in New York with Leonard Gardner, author of Fat City. 

On Friday, November 20, at 7 p.m., Film Forum (209 W Houston St) will screen John Huston's 1972 film Fat City, adapted from Leonard Gardner's novel. The NYRB Classics edition of Fat City will be available at concession. After the film, Gardner will be in conversation with noir writer Eddie Muller about the novel, and there will be an audience Q&A. Fat City will screen at Film Forum through November 26th. 

Leonard Gardner will discuss his novel with writer and critic Gary Giddins as a part of McNally Jackson Live, the bookstore's new series. The event will take place on Tuesday, November 17, at 7 p.m., at the bookstore (52 Prince St) and will also include a conversation between The Nation's Ari Berman and The New Yorker's Jelani Cobb on the modern struggle for voting rights, as well as David Shields and Philip Lopate on Shields' War Is Beautiful.

Join NYRB Poets and La Maison Française NYU in celebrating the publication of Ron Padgett's translations of Guillaume Apollinaire's poems in Zone. Padgett will read selections from his translations and copies of the poetry collection will be available for sale.

When: Thursday, November 19, 7pm
Where: La Maison Française NYU, 16 Washington Mews, NYC

This event is free and open to the public.

Photo credit: John Sarsgard

NYRB is pleased to receive praise for Sasha Abramsky's The House of Twenty Thousand Books from Michael Dirda in The Washington Post. 

Dirda writes, "The House of Twenty Thousand Books lovingly recreates an intellectual milieu that was built around old books, chess games, Russian dominoes, Eastern European food, hot tea, family and long evenings spent in spirited political debate." 

Meet Sasha Abramsky at events in New York, Washington D.C., and Cambridge: 

Sunday, October 11, 12 pm, Politics & Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave, NW, Washington DC
Monday, October 12, 7 pm, The Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway, NYC (In conversation with Robin Blackburn)
Tuesday, October 13, 7 pm, East Meadow Public Library, 1886 Front St, East Meadow, NY
Wednesday, October 14, 7 pm, Book Culture on Columbus, 450 Columbus Ave, NYC (In conversation with Samuel Freedman)
Thursday, October 15, 7 pm, Porter Square Books, 25 White St, Cambridge, MA (In conversation with Jeremy Solomons)

Join NYRB Classics in celebrating the publication of the first unexpurgated edition of Miron Białoszewski's A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising at these events featuring Madeline G. Levine, who extensively revised her 1970 translation of Białoszewski's book for this new edition.

Wednesday, November 11th, 5:30 pm - 7 pm
Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Toy Lounge, Dey Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Madeline G. Levine will discuss Białoszewski’s harrowing account of the Polish capital's rise against Nazi occupation in 1944 and her work translating the memoir with Ewa Wampuszyc, Assistant Professor of Polish Language and Literature in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages at UNC, Chapel Hill.

Thursday, November 12th, 7 pm
The Regulator Bookshop, 720 Ninth Street Durham, NC
Madeline G. Levine will read from and discuss her translation of Białoszewski’s memoir.

On Thursday, September 17, at 7 p.m., join us at the Albertine (972 Fifth Avenue, New York) for a discussion of Emmanuel Bove's Henri Duchemin and His Shadows with translator Alyson Waters and introducer Donald Breckenridge. For more information, visit the Albertine website. 

Join the China Institute and NYRB in celebrating the publication of Chen Shih-hsiang and Harold Acton’s translation of K’ung Shang-jen’s The Peach Blossom Fan on Thursday, September 24, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m, at the China Institute’s new downtown home (100 Washington Street, New York). Award-winning translator and China Institute Senior Lecturer Ben Wang will speak about the masterpiece of Chinese literature. Visit the China Institute website to register for the event. 

Join NYRB for events on the east and west coasts with The House of Twenty Thousand Books author Sasha Abramsky. 

Bay Area
Wednesday, September 9, 7:30 pm, Mrs. Dalloway’s, 2904 College Ave, Berkeley
Thursday, September 10, 6 pm, Mechanics' Institute Library, 57 Post St, San Francisco (In conversation with David Biale)
Thursday, September 17, 7 pm, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera
Tuesday, September 29, 7 pm, Rakestraw Books, 3 Railroad Ave, Danville
Wednesday, October 21, 4:30 pm, Sponsored by the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, the event will take place in History Bldg. 200, Rm 307, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford University
Sunday, October 25, 1:30 pm, The Jewish Community Library, 1835 Ellis St, San Francisco,

Los Angeles
Thursday, October 1, 7 pm, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles

Sacramento
Wednesday, September 16, 7 pm, The Avid Reader, 1600 Broadway, Sacramento

New York City and the surrounding area
Wednesday, October 7, 6:30 pm, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th St, NYC
Thursday, October 8, 7:30 pm, Words Bookstore, 179 Maplewood Ave, Maplewood, NJ 
Friday, October 9, 11am, Center for Jewish Studies, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, Room C197, NYC
Monday, October 12, 7 pm, The Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway, NYC (In conversation with Robin Blackburn)
Tuesday, October 13, 7 pm, East Meadow Public Library, 1886 Front St, East Meadow, NY
Wednesday, October 14, 7 pm, Book Culture on Columbus, 450 Columbus Ave, NYC (In conversation with Samuel Freedman)

Cambridge
Thursday, October 15, 7 pm, Porter Square Books, 25 White St, Cambridge, MA (In conversation with Jeremy Solomons) 

Washington DC
Sunday, October 11, 12 pm, Politics & Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave, NW, Washington DC

Montreal
Wednesday, November 11, 7:30 pm, Jewish Public Library, 5151 Côte-Ste-Catherine Road, Montreal