Kingsley Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995) was a popular and prolific British novelist, poet, and critic, widely regarded as one of the greatest satirical writers of the twentieth century.

NYRB Classics publishes Amis’s The Old Devils, Take a Girl Like You, Girl, 20, The Green Man, The Alteration, One Fat Englishman, Lucky Jim, and Ending Up. In honor of his birthday, all NYRB Classics by Kingsley Amis will be available at 30% off for a limited time.

We are pleased to announce that the following books from NYRB have made the longlists and shortlists for PEN awards and a Lambda Literary award. 

Ian Buruma’s Theater of Cruelty has been included on the longlist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.

Josep Pla’s The Gray Notebook, translated by Peter Bush, and Tove Jansson’s The Woman Who Borrowed Memories, translated by Thomas Teal and Silvester Mazzarella, have been included on the Pen Translation Prize longlist. 

Finalists will be announced on April 15, and the winners of all 2015 PEN awards will be announced on May 13 and honored at PEN’s Literary Awards Ceremony on June 8 at The New School in NYC.

Qiu Miaojin’s Last Words from Montmartre, translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich, has been shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian General Fiction category. Winners of the 27th Annual Lambda Literary Awards will be announced at a gala ceremony on June 1st in NYC.

Join Joel Agee, the translator of the NYRB Classics edition of Prometheus Bound, for discussions about the provocative Greek tragedy at events around New York City. 

On Tuesday, March 24, at 7 p.m., Damion Searls and Joel Agee will be in conversation about Prometheus Bound at The Community Bookstore (143 Seventh Ave, Brooklyn).

On Monday, March 30, from 7 to 8 p.m., Joel Agee will discuss his translation of Prometheus Bound, and Ron Cephas Jones, who starred in the acclaimed Getty Villa production of the play, will give dramatic readings of the text at the Strand Bookstore (828 Broadway, New York). 

On Tuesday, March 31, at 7 p.m., Joel Agee will discuss Prometheus Bound with poet Tom Sleigh at The New York Public Library (Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, South Court Auditorium, 476 5th Ave, New York). Edwin Frank, series editor of NYRB Classics, will introduce the speakers. This event is sponsored by the Onassis Foundation (USA) and New York Review Books.

On Friday, March 13, at 6 p.m., join New York Review Books, the American Academy in Rome, and McKee Gallery in celebrating the publication of Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. American Academy in Rome President Mark Robbins and Robert Storr will provide brief introductory remarks on Philip Guston and the book, and a reception will follow. McKee Gallery is located at 745 5th Avenue #400, New York.

On Monday, March 16, at 7 p.m., Edward Mendelson will discuss his latest book, Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers at Politics & Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, D.C.

On Tuesday, March 3rd, at 7 p.m., join NYRB Classics in celebrating the release of Sybille Bedford’s A Legacy at The Community Bookstore, 143 Seventh Ave, Brooklyn, NY. Author Brenda Wineapple, who wrote the introduction to the NYRB Classics edition of A Legacy, will be in conversation with Daniel Mendelsohn.

On Wednesday, March 4, at 7 p.m., join Edward Mendelson and Edwin Frank for a discussion of Mendelson’s latest book, Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers at Barnes & Noble Upper West Side, 2289 Broadway, New York.

Edward Mendelson’s Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers offers a provocative reassessment of the lives and work of eight influential 20th-century American writers: Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald, W. H. Auden, William Maxwell, Saul Bellow, Alfred Kazin, Norman Mailer and Frank O’Hara. Hear Edward Mendelson discuss Moral Agents at the following events:

92nd Street Y
February 22, 2015, 11 a.m.
1395 Lexington Avenue, New York

Book Culture
February 25, 2015, 7 p.m.
536 W 112th Street, New York

Patrick Leigh Fermor, born on February 11, 1915, would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year. To commemorate this anniversary and “one of the greatest travel writers of all time” (The Sunday Times), all New York Review Books titles by and about Leigh Fermor will be available at 30% off for a limited time, including the author’s renowned trilogy detailing his youthful trek across pre-World-War-II Europe: A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, and The Broken Road.

See a list of all New York Review Books titles by and about Patrick Leigh Fermor here.