Congratulations to @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, R. Kikuo Johnson and Dash Shaw on REA IRVIN'S THE SMYTHES winning in the Best Collection of Classic Material category in the 2025 Broken Frontier Awards. www.brokenfrontier.com/broken-front...

Naomi Fry recommends Gwendoline Riley's The Palm House on the New Yorker's Critics at Large podcast, and not just because it's short and the font is large. About 12:30 min into the episode. www.newyorker.com/podcast/crit...

“I was not interested in creating that rhythm of tension and release in order to arouse. That’s what pornography does.” —Robert Glück

"Latronico’s prose strips the deluginous images on our screens of their sticky allure, making them appear brittle and dry—an austere triumph of the written word." Niuniu Zhao picks up vincenzo.bsky.social’s PERFECTION (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social) in NYRA no. 49. nyra.nyc/articles/hel...le

Nothing to do with NYRB but a fascinating article (and we have some crickets fans on staff).

"It's not really that healthy to have a robot with a personality." Nancy Lemann talks to a new robot for @parisreview.bsky.social. She's loyal to the old one, though. We are reissuing Lemann's Lives of the Saints and publishing her new book, The Oyster Diaries, in April.

"Tergit refuses to present the Holocaust as the telos of a necessarily failed German-Jewish symbiosis. She never condemns European Jews for not seeing the writing on the wall. She focuses on a way of life rather than its destruction." Review of Gabriele Tergit's Effingers by @ds228.bsky.social

"an essential reference book for any aspiring (or established!) cartoonist to have in their collection."

Ayten Tartici will discuss Oğuz Atay's Waiting for the Fear with translator Ralph Hubbell this Sunday (4pm) on Zoom. "These linguistically playful, slightly surreal stories, written in the 1970s, center on the down-and-out misfits and oddballs who struggle to connect with the rest of society."

Nueva edición en inglés de Trilce que aparecerá a fines de este mes vía @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social :

The Hong Kong Metropolitan University Library has a display of Eileen Chang's personal items and archives, particularly those to do with her friendship with the Soong family. Looks like it includes photos of Chang, who might be the most glamorous author in the NYRB stable. museum.lib.hkmu.edu.hk/en

"Sometimes the term ‘lost masterpiece’ proves to be little more than a publisher’s puff. At other times, however, a long-buried book that is dug up, dusted down and branded a classic is worthy of the accolade. That applies to Gabriele Tergit’s The Effingers."

"Glück’s prose is a clever hodgepodge where highbrow references and everyday banter collide, turning theory into gossip and gossip into theory." Lovely little review of Jack the Modernist in Mousse magazine.

the best book you will ever read about Greenland, truly an incredible memoir / travelogue -- thanks to @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

"You can’t really 'discover' Mavis Gallant; you can only join the ranks of people who will rhapsodize, almost delirious, about her once they’ve read her short stories, reawakened to literature, to reading, to words!"

Elder-statesman Edwin Frank was interviewed for an article on the rise in reissue publishing in @culturedmag.com.web.brid.gy "There became a historical dimension to people’s awareness and their cultural commitment."

thanks to @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social you can read the greatest work of literature ever written about battling nazis in the freezing cold (among many other things)

Time is running out! Vote now in the Broken Frontier Awards 2025! Nominees for 'Best Collection of Classic Comics' inc. projects from @darkhorse.com @jmdematteis.bsky.social @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @fantagraphics.bsky.social #BFAwards25 Vote online here: www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-...

New favorite hat just arrived from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social — it’ll serve as an expression of my opinion of the state of things, as well as a way to identify my Labatut homies in the wild #booksky #litfic

"...there is no better place to find the materials for that cosmopolitan education in poetry than by reading through the poems that make up the anthology At the Louvre: Poems by 100 Contemporary World Poets, Another review from Ancci in @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social

"Water is a book to read and reread if not through at once, then at least incrementally just like fine, expensive wine." Ancci on Haleh Liza Gafori's translation of Rumi. @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social

And "Lexicon of Comicana" as an example of how to do it right.

"As every writer is aware, writing is commonly a return to work you have already been engaged in; it is only occasionally the beginning of something new." Amit Chaudhuri on his writing "process."

Coming from NYRB to the US in spring 2027.

London, tonight at 7pm Robert Glück will be speaking with Andrew Durbin at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social (107 Charing Cross Road). Tickets are £10. www.foyles.co.uk/events/rober...

Well, no surprise, but this is fucking fantastic. Out this April. From the great @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social and wonderful New Orleans author Nancy Lemann (Lives of The Saints).

We're reissuing Richard Hell's Godlike next month. Tonight you can see him in Susan Seidelman's Smithereens (1982) at Quad Cinema (NYC).

"A New World offers a different kind of novel to a different world: local, cosmopolitan, quizzical, inhabited, seen, and felt." Edwin Frank on Amit Chaudhuri's 4th novel, back in print alongside The Immortals and a collection of Chaudhuri's essays, Incompleteness: 1999-2023. @nybooks.com

It's sold out but Lockwood, Batuman, Heti and Riley is a pretty strong panel. Way to go Toronto Public Library. www.eventbrite.ca/e/what-is-im...

"Driver is a welcome addition to our strangely threadbare library of readable books about work." Another great review for Mattia Filice's Driver, translated by Jacques Houis. Why they are all coming from Britain?

Exceptional book post today. If you’re not already a Nancy Lemann fan, 2026 could be your year. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social will publish her first new novel in a couple of decades in April, while also bringing back Lives of the Saints. This is the good stuff, friends.

From the archive for Eleanor Perényi, #BornOnThisDay in 1918, my thoughts on MORE WAS LOST, a remarkable memoir on the author's life with a Hungarian baron in the run-up to #WW2 Thanks NYRB Classics for reissuing this thoroughly captivating gem! #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/m...

"Recognizing our duty to one another will be a hard sell in a world where we have been encouraged to think only about our own convenience and interests." Jennifer Szalai on Omri Boehm's Radical Universalism.

"Chateaubriand’s life was, as he says of Récamier’s, 'at once so impressive and so secluded.'” Eric Byrd reviews the third installment of his MEMOIRS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social), translated by Alex Andriesse. ocreviewofbooks.org/2025/12/27/m...

For Public Picks, our co–EIC @njdames.bsky.social recommends Peter Brooks's “Henry James Comes Home,” Solvej Balle's “On the Calculation of Volume III,” & @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social's “Close Reading for the 21st Century.”

Peter Brooks's Henry James Comes Home is on the PEN America Biography Prize longlist. Congrats to Peter and all the other recognized authors! HJ Comes Home is the story of The Master's 1904 tour of the US and his observations about a much-changed society.

Michael Hofmann's translation of Markus Werner's The Frog in the Throat made the cut! Humor and pathos from Switzerland. Congrats to Michael and the other authors and translators on the longlist.

"William Arrowsmith’s [translation of Cesare Pavese's] Hard Labor, first published in 1976, was a revelation: colloquial, risk-taking, full of American cadences. It made Pavese sound modern in English. Kenneth Rexroth called it 'about as good as could be imagined.'"

@chrispower.bsky.social wrote a bittersweet review of Soraya Antonius's The Lord: a rich picture of Mandatory Palestine, its independence movement, the consequences and follies of empire, and the unfortunate circular nature of history. It's worth reading.

For @thenation.com, here's my obituary of Norman Podhoretz—the last canonical New York intellectual, and the first of a now-familiar breed of discourse demagogue

Making It is a great memoir. We reissued it in 2017 with an intro by Terry Teachout. From our description— "It is a Balzacian story of raw talent and relentless and ruthless ambition."

“He didn’t think it was funny when I told him what I wanted (i.e. to be good & beautiful or at least be in a state of grace, for God’s sake) and I didn’t mean it to be funny.” From Eve Babitz’s journal in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/B9OTKrO

"Guyotat’s captivating work of memory recounts dreams and terrors of childhood, adolescent fear and fevers, and the 'filth of fighting' during the Algerian War...." Pierre Guyotat's Idiocy is one of Herbert's Highlights of 2025. Some NYRB staffers are keen to read Guyotat's early work next.

I’m reading the forthcoming NYRB/Poets release, Emmanuel Hocquard’s Elegies, tr. Cole Swenson. They are absolutely beautiful and I cannot wrap my head around them. Has anyone any tips that can help me get a foot on the ground? If not, I’m still thoroughly entranced. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

Amazing article on Rea Irvin and The Smythes by Tammi Morton-Kelly in @comicsjournal.bsky.social. "Each strip unfolds like a stage play: the setting minimal, the dialogue crisp, the humor restrained but precise."

See what's coming from us in spring 2026. cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/07...

"....unclassifiable gem of a book...." Becca Rothfeld on Roger Shattuck's The Forbidden Experiment. "For what this remarkable book reveals is not that Victor’s labored humanization was unique, but that none of us can hope to achieve humanity without the aid of a community."

The Ten Thousand Leaves @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social #poetry #japanesepoetry

"....coyly removing the work from centuries of conversations about taste, lineage, and merit...." not a bad way to write about Joe Brainard's C Comics.

Joe Brainard event tonight (6:30) at the New York Studio School (8 w. 8th St.). Bill Kartalopoulos, John Yau, and Tony Towle will discuss Brainard's C Comics, which he made with his poet friends and is a shinning example of artistic play, humor, and collaborative creativity.