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.

We are pleased to announce that Ruchama King Feuerman’s In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist received an honorable mention for the 2015 Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish literature at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Chicago.

In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist, set in Jerusalem, is the story of two expatriate Americans—a kabbalist’s assistant and a beautiful motorcycle-riding woman—and an Arab janitor, whose lives become intertwined in a variety of ways in the courtyard of an elderly kabbalist and his wife.

New York Review Books and The New York Review of Books will be at the ALA Midwinter Meeting and Exhibits in Chicago this Friday, January 30th, through Monday, February 2nd.

For those attending ALA, visit us at booth #4728 in McCormick Place. A selection of books will be for sale at discounted prices, and we will be giving out free issues of The New York Review of Books. For details visit the ALA website.

Celebrate Josep Pla’s masterpiece, The Gray Notebook, and Catalan literature at events with translator Peter Bush in January and February.

The Birth of a Writer: Translating Josep Pla’s The Gray Notebook

On Thursday, January 22, at 5:15 p.m., translator Peter Bush will give a lecture on translating Josep Pla’s The Gray Notebook as part of the Translation Matters: Applications in the 21st Century Lecture Series at Stanford University.

Translation and the Status of the Stateless Literature: The Case of Catalan

On Friday, January 23, at 5:15 p.m., Peter Bush will give a lecture on translating Josep Pla’s The Gray Notebook from the Catalan at the University of California Santa Barbara’s “The Voice of the Translator” conference. The event will be free and open to the public. For more information, visit UCSB’s website.

A Discussion of Josep Pla

On Tuesday, January 27, at 5 p.m., join Peter Bush and Katherine Silver, translator of Martín Adán’s The Cardboard House, for a conversation about The Gray Notebookauthor Josep Pla at B44 Catalan Bistro. The event is co-sponsored by NYRB Classics and The Center for the Art of Translation, and is free and open to the public.

A Lecture on Translating The Gray Notebook

On Thursday, January 29, at 12:15 p.m., Peter Bush will discuss translating Josep Pla’sThe Gray Notebook at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey. The event is free and open to the public.

One Country, Three Languages: Literature from Spain

On Monday, February 2nd, at 6 p.m., The Gray Notebook translator Peter Bush will be in discussion with Amaia Gabantxo, Lecturer in the Committee of Creative Writing and teacher of Basque, University of Chicago, and Susan Harris, Editorial Director of Words Without Borders, at Seminary Co-op bookstore. For more information, visit Seminary Co-op’s website.

“On Becoming a Writer: Josep Pla’s The Gray Notebook” Lecture by Peter Bush

On Tuesday, February 3rd, at 4:30 p.m., translator Peter Bush will discuss Josep Pla’sThe Gray Notebook at The University of Chicago’s Logan Center. For more information, visit The University of Chicago’s website.

Editing Translation - The Case of The Gray Notebook

On Tuesday, February 2nd, from noon to 1:30 p.m., Peter Bush will lead a workshop titled “Editing Translation - The Case of The Gray Notebook” that is free and open to the public. Contact the University of Chicago’s Romance Languages Department at 773-702-8481 for details.

This week and next, hear the frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and author of Blackballed speak at events in New York City.

On Wednesday, January 14, at 7 p.m., Darryl Pinckney will be in conversation with Stosh Cotler, CEO of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place, New York. In a wide-ranging discussion, Pinckney and Cotler will discuss the struggle for voting rights, the place of Jews in that struggle, and where the Black-Jewish relationship stands now, particularly amid recent civil rights protests in Missouri and New York.

On Thursday, January 15, at 6 p.m., The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture will host a panel discussion about the fight for racial justice, featuring Isabel Wilkerson, Patricia J. Williams, Eric Foner, Mychal Denzel Smith, Darryl Pinckney, and moderated by the director of the Schomburg, Khalil Muhammad. The event is part of The Nation‘s 150th Anniversary celebration, and is not open to the public, but will be live streamed on thenation.com at 6 p.m. EST.

On Sunday, January 18, at 3 p.m., WNYC’s annual Martin Luther King Day celebration will return to the Apollo Theater, 253 West 125th Street, New York, for a special edition of the Apollo’s Uptown Hall series, which brings together Harlem audiences with scholars, community leaders, and activists, including Darryl Pinckney, to engage in conversation about King’s legacy and how his teachings affect us today. WNYC’s Brian Lehrer will co-host this event with television host Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry.

For more information, please visit our events page.

On Saturday, January 10, at 11 a.m., join Chris Raschka for Greenlight Bookstore’s Saturday Story Time. The Alphabetabum author will lead kids in activities based on the pictures and poems in the book.

For details, visit Greenlight Bookstore’s website.

New York Review Books will be in Vancouver for the annual Modern Language Association conference (Jan. 8 - 11) and we invite conference attendees and local readers to spend time with us at Pulpfiction Books, a thriving independent book store, on Thursday, January 8, from 6:30 to 8:30 PM.

The meet-up will be held at the original Pulpfiction Books at 2422 Main Street. Please RSVP here if you’d like to attend.

If you are attending MLA, stop by NYRB Booth 409, where you can see a wide selection of our books and pick up a free copy of the latest issue of The New York Review of Books.