"Penick's book recovers one of pre-colonial South Asia's most restless philosophical documents — the ancient Sanskrit story cycle known as the Baital Pachchisi — and carries it, with considerable lyrical intelligence, into contemporary English." The Oceans of Cruelty: 25 Tales of a Corpse-Spirit

At @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social, I talked with Brad Neely about his new collection Creased Comics (out on @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social). www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/06/24/b...

Dash Shaw on Don Bluth.

Just sent all the files for our two Fall titles--both beautiful, slender, debut novels--to the printer. Cannot wait to share them with you all in October!

"Few passages in literature depict the undefeated human spirit with such persuasive force." Brian Patrick Eha on a scene towards the end of Curzio Malaparte's Kaputt when the protagonist, beginning the day in the Regina Coeli prison, ends it in a Neapolitan bomb shelter.

Last day for the annual NYRB Summer Sale, which ends at midnight (eastern US). Again, 2 books for 20% off; 3 for 30%, 4 for 40%. Free shipping in the US for orders over $75. We are out of stock of some titles, sorry, but there are lots of good choices. www.nyrb.com

Our annual summer sale is happening. Any 2 NYRB, Archipelago, Dorothy, NHE books for 20% off; 3 for 30% off; 4 for 40%. Orders over $75 get free shipping in the US. Sale ends Monday at midnight. www.nyrb.com

"In this volume, what makes Grossman a great and unique voice are 'The Hell of Treblinka' and 'Ukraine Without Jews,' where he writes as if nothing could stop him from communicating to the world his horror at what he has learned and witnessed." Bob Blaisdell on From the Front Line.

Clare Carlisle discussed her recent book, Transcendence for Beginners, with Noreen Khawaja at the New York Society Library. If you couldn't be there, here's the recording.

"'Ooh, that’s her dark one,' enthused a friend upon hearing of the reissue of The Sweet Dove Died." Eric Gudas on trivia, power struggles, and collecting in Barbara Pym's The Sweet Dove Died. @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

"Grossman's remarkable elasticity of perspective sometimes unsettled his editors; in a single article, he could criticize grand ideas while sympathizing intensely with every living being...." @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social on Vasily Grossman's war reportage (From the Front Line).

Author Nathan Whitlock considers Anakana Schofield’s first three books to be among the best Canadian novels of this century. He expected something daring after 2019’s Bina; Schofield’s latest, Library of Brothel, is even more surprising than anticipated. https://ow.ly/wjlC50ZaXKV

Reminder: Library of Brothel is coming to the US in January.

"Chaudhuri is a master of mundane, hallucinatory moments, calling to mind Rachel Cusk or W. G. Sebald." Hua Hsu picks Amit Chaudhuri's Sojourn as his "pocket read" (books that can be finished in an afternoon)." If Paris, and not Berlin, is on your mind, get ready for Château Rouge.

New Diane Williams collection, I Liked Rex, coming from yours truly in September.

Browse our Fall 2026 catalog, which includes publishers that we distribute in the US: Archipelago, Dorothy, and Notting Hill Editions; as well as NYR Comics, NYRB Poets, and NYRB Kids. cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/07...

Nancy Lemann interviewed by the The Hobbyist.

Amit Chaudhuri is leading a online creative writing workshop from July 4 to 12. Deadline to apply is June 18. www.ashoka.edu.in/event/intern...

"[Love and Death in the American Novel] is an incredible repository of vexations, bafflements, witticisms, and brilliancies.... Fiedler is capable of aggravating us but not of boring us. What makes 'Love and Death' so worth reading is also what makes it so worth disagreeing with."

"For Paul, solitude is inescapable, and something we must learn to embrace." —John Yau reviews the exhibit of Celia Paul's paintings up now at Gladstone Gallery. Her new book, Objects of Desire, comes out in November. @hyperallergic.com

On Renata Adler's commas, and style, the author within the writing.

"The lasting moments are the ones that seem at first the least significant. At one point, Waldrop describes how his brother’s cat would sit by the stove and watch, 'with wide green eyes', as the water that he would splash from his bowl would hiss and steam as it hit the hot stove."

BBC names its best book of the year so far and includes Gwendoline Riley's The Palm House, which "centres on a pair of spiky middle-aged colleagues." We have those at our office, too.

My new blog post on Inès Cagnati’s CRAZY GENIE - a sad, haunting, beautiful novel about poverty and a heartbreaking mother-daughter relationship. Translated from the French by Liesl Schillinger. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/c...

"Dillon does not seem an obvious candidate for memoir-writing; no chance of him following Philip Roth, who once wore down the “I” on his typewriter and had to have it repaired." Me on Brian Dillon's - third-person! - memoir, Ambivalence:

Join us next week for a vir­tu­al evening of read­ings and con­ver­sa­tion with poets Daniela Nao­mi Mol­nar and Peter Cole on June 4th at 7:30 p.m. EST! @ayinpress.bsky.social @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social bit.ly/49iZG93

This Friday and Saturday May 29th and 30th, catch WKCR's Sonny Rollins Memorial Broadcast, featuring 48 non-stop hours of the Saxophone Colossus. Listen anywhere at www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/s...

"What better way of understanding history – especially social or cultural history – than reading a documentary novel like this?" Michael Hofmann (always a pleasure to read) on Gabriele Tergit's Effingers, recently translated by Sophie Duvernoy. @lrb.co.uk

Rollins kept written notebooks from 1959 to 2010. Sam V.H. Reese edited a selection from it which we published in 2024. It's a look inside the mind and music of the Saxophone Colossus.

"...style, for Guyotat, is where art becomes politicized, enabling it to hold a plurality of stereoscoped perspectives in tensive union." R. K. Hegelman reviews Pierre Guyotat's Idiocy, translated by Peter Behrman de Sinéty, for @thenation.com

"The sax can achieve any color with the orchestra. How often have I been fooled by its oboe-ish sound? And what a variety of tone it has displayed when simulating the sound of the trombone or the brilliance of the trumpet or the color that is open to us in strings" The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins

It’s publication day for Library of Brothel in Canada (US/UK will be Jan 12, 2027 by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social) This novel is REALLY going to need your support. If you “tip it off a cliff“ in literature not everyone will be willing to go with you. So come out for the proletariat and buy a copy.

"In this strange little gem, Waldrop captures [a] shining light and the shadows it illuminates with a powerful and understated magnificence." —Eric Banks on Keith Waldrop's Light While There Is Light at 4 Columns, which will stop shining its own light very soon. We will miss it.

I became friends with Benny Safdie, who is adapting the book and directing the film, so I know some of his thinking. But I have been told NOTHING about what The Rock is preparing except that it will be great. I have upgraded my healthy breakfast to even healthier to ensure I will be here to see it.

Tonight. Topics could include: Satyajit Ray & Ritwik Ghatak; national literatures; modernism is India; where Neil Diamond lived in Brooklyn; more.

So excited about these 3 new gems from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social ! I've been eyeing Berger for years, fueled by recommendations from Elisa Gabbert - can't wait to finally dig in. Plus, more to come this year! And very intrigued by the Lemann, a "cult-classic novel of love and decadence."

"Stilted dialogue is Riley’s métier. Conversation has an exhausted, domestic quality. People talk aggressively past each other, communication persistently fails." —Isabella Gullifer-Laurie on Gwendoline Riley's The Palm House at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

"You could go on for hundreds of pages trying to understand how Takano captures the appeal of movement through space on the page. But is that really necessary? Miss Ruki boasts flawless technical execution, but it is first and foremost entertaining and accessible." Miss Ruki! @yattatachi.com

William Gaddis's J R is #1!!!!

Good way to start the week. Piece forthcoming. Thanks to @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

Loved seeing Life and Fate on the Guardian’s list of the 100 best novels of all time. Saved from further obscurity & championed by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, it’s more than just a great reading experience — it’s one of the great experiences of any kind in my entire life.

The good folks at @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social are having a sale on some great books this weekend. A stellar four books for 40% off (among the ones I've read) would be: —THE PEREGRINE, J.A. Baker —THE SUMMER BOOK, Tove Jansson —HEAVEN'S BREATH, Lyall Watson —BUTCHER'S CROSSING, John Williams

"Seeing Further’s focus on the conditions of viewership drives home its point about a shifting cinema landscape, but it also allows the book to roam beyond the confines of the theater." —Esther Kinsky's Seeing Further (trans. Caroline Schmidt) is reviewed by Walker Rutter-Bowman @thenation.com

Just finished Elliott Chaze’s BLACK WINGS HAS MY ANGEL, written in 1953, which is absolutely extraordinary. It’s a visceral & existential noir which had my heart beating so fast at times I had to stop reading. There are car chases, lovers on the run, bank heists, prison time, torture, (1)

Michael McMillan's Terminal Exposure and Rea Irvin's The Smythes are on the shortlist for Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection/Project - Strips Diane DiMassa's Hothead Paisan on the shortlist for Archival Comic Books. Vote! www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...

"Di Benedetto’s writing lingers in the brain; to a receptive reader, it can feel like a secret handshake between dryly mordant minds." @jeremygordon.bsky.social recommends The Suicides for summer reading.

Yesterday's excellent galley mail from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social! Is Beauty Good by Rosalind Belben and I Liked Rex by Diane Williams!

A reminder that I'll be in conversation with Amit Chaudhuri next Thursday at Rizzoli Bookstore! Happily reading one Chaudhuri novel after another even tho we're mostly supposed to talk about the essays (those are great, too). @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

Review! Creased Comics – New York Review Comics Collect the Bizarre and Irreverent Cartooning of Brad Neely. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/creased-comi...

Pretty excited about this. Forty-nine Vasily Grossman articles from WWII, from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social