NYRB NEWS
Alastair Reid, 1926–2014
NYRB at the Brooklyn Book Festival
New York Review Books and The New York Review of Books will be at the Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday, September 21, from 10–6. Come visit us at booths 428–429, where we’ll have books at discounted prices, free copies of the latest issue of The New York Review of Books, and more.
From 2–2:50 p.m., hear NYRB author and contributor Darryl Pinckney speak about African-American voting rights on the “Voting Rights from Reconstruction to Obama” Brooklyn Book Festival panel, along with University of Baltimore law professor F. Michael Higginbotham (Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America),The Nation contributing writer Ari Berman, and panel moderator Erika L. Wood, Associate Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Voting Rights and Civil Participation Project at New York Law School. The panel will be held in the Brooklyn Law School Moot Courtroom, 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn.
Ian Buruma at 192 Books
On Tuesday, October 16th, at 7pm, Ian Buruma will be at 192 Books to discuss his new essay collection, Theater of Cruelty. Theater of Cruelty brings together twenty-eight of Ian Buruma’s essays on, as he writes in the introduction, “our fearful fascination with power and cruelty and death” and the art that emerges from times of great violence and conflict.
For more information about the event, visit the 192 Books event page here or the NYRB event page here. We hope to see you there.
NYRB Classics Celebrates Sanford Friedman
Join us for events celebrating the publication of Conversations with Beethoven and Totempole by Sanford Friedman.
On Wednesday, September 10, at 7 p.m., Richard Howard and Leo Carey will discuss Sanford Friedman’s final work, Conversations with Beethoven, at Barnes & Noble, Upper West Side location, 2289 Broadway. For more information, visit the Barnes &Noble website.
On Thursday, September 18, at 7 p.m., join Peter Cameron and Benjamin Taylor for a discussion of Totempole by Sanford Friedman at The Bureau of General Services – Queer Division, 83A Hester Street, New York. For more information, visit The Bureau of General Services – Queer Division’s website.
‘Morel’s Invention’ and ‘The 10th Victim’ at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Morel’s Invention, the film adaptation of Adolfo Bioy Casares’s The Invention of Morel, and The 10th Victim, based on the story “Seventh Victim” in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley, will play at the Film Society of Lincoln Center on Wednesday, August 27, as a part of their “Strange Lands: International Sci-Fi” series.
Emidio Greco’s 1974 film Morel’s Invention will screen first, at 7 p.m., followed by Elio Petri’s 1965 The 10th Victim, which will begin at 9:20 p.m.
For more information, visit the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s website.
NYRB Classics Author Simon Leys, 1935–2014
NYRB is saddened to announce that Pierre Ryckmans, known by the pen name Simon Leys, died on Monday, August 11, 2014.
Pierre Ryckmans was born in Belgium and settled in Australia in 1970. He taught Chinese literature at the Australian National University and was Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney from 1987 to 1993. Leys’s writing has appeared inThe New York Review of Books, Le Monde, Le Figaro Littéraire, and other periodicals. Among his books are Chinese Shadows, The Death of Napoleon (forthcoming from NYRB Classics), Other People’s Thoughts, and The Wreck of the Batavia & Prosper. In 1996 he delivered the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Boyer lectures. He won many awards, including the Prix Renaudot, the Prix Femina, the Prix Guizot, and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.
Read The Sydney Morning Herald’s obituary for Leys here and Ian Buruma’s comprehensive essay on Leys’ work in his article on The Hall of Uselessness for The New York Review of Books here.
NYRB Classics will publish Leys’ translation of Simone Weil’s On the Abolition of All Political Parties this September.
Event: Daniel Mendelsohn and Adrian Goldsworthy on Emperor Augustus at McNally Jackson
On Monday, August 25, at 7 p.m., Daniel Mendelsohn will be in conversation with Adrian Goldsworthy about the new NYRB Classic Augustus by John Williams, author of Stoner, and Goldsworthy’s new biography, Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor, published by Yale University Press.
For more information, visit the McNally Jackson website or join the Facebook event.