Tomorrow / Thursday Last chance to see Gwendoline Riley in the US. She'll be speaking with Andrew Martin about The Palm House. BookCulture. 536 W. 112th St. 7pm @bookculture.com

On May 4, join @equatormag.bsky.social and @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social for an online event celebrating Zheng Xiaoqiong, perhaps the most important Chinese writer to depict the lives of migrant laborers on Guangdong – where she once herself worked at factories.

Gwendoline Riley and Brandon Taylor tonight at @greenlightberg.bsky.social. Events starts at 7:30pm.

Really looking forward to speaking to the great Amit Chaudhuri at Rizzoli Bookstore on May 21! Reading and rereading his many @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social books in preparation. www.nyrb.com/blogs/events...

Amit Chaudhuri is speaking with Srikanth Reddy at @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social (Chicago) today at 4pm. In January we reissued Chaudhuri's novels A New World and The Immortals alongside a collection of his essays, Incompleteness. We've now published 10 novels by Chaudhuri. He's one of the best.

Gwendoline Riley will speak with Brandon Taylor tomorrow (Tuesday) at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social 7:30pm. 686 Fulton St. Brooklyn.

"Riley is much too sharp a writer to pose and answer a single question in her fiction. Being inside her novels is a singular, spiky, often deeply funny experience." Lynn Steger Strong on Gwendoline Riley's The Palm House.

New on Book Post: Abby Rosebrock on Nancy Lemann’s long-overdue return. Read about her narrators’ “humane” and “razor-sharp” chronicling of chaos → books.substack.com/p/review-abb... @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @hubcitypress.bsky.social

Angelenos, Brad Neely will be launching Creased Comics at BookSoup tomorrow at 4pm. He'll be speaking with Nic Juarez. It's also #IndieBookstoreDay so support your local indie bookstore.

What would you like the headline of your obituary to be? 'Publisher of the Dead Joins Them.' —Edwin Frank, NYRB editor, answers a few questions for Cultured magazine.

I get in on the fun Nancy Lemann renaissance with a look at her trio of new and republished books--two pendant novels and a work of quasi-reportage. Her New Orleans reminds me a little of Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood, but more humid and soused. Gift link: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

"That free-floating picture that I had dreamed up, of a past world reborn from its own ashes in response to a great crisis, might, possibly, be a reality." — @parisreview.bsky.social ran an excerpt of Nastassja Martin's East of Dreams (trsl. Sophie Lewis).

Independent Bookstore Day is this Saturday. We'll be celebrating at BookSoup in Los Angeles where Brad Neely will be celebrating Creased Comics with Nic Juarez. Event starts at 4pm. booksoup.com/event/2026-0...

I thought he was fading, but in fact Richard Hell is a real survivor, and he is having a very fine late act by way of having always been true to his particular style and vision.

We're pleased that Sonya Walger's Lion is on this list. Congrats to her and the other selected authors.

PBS is airing the first episode of Wilding tonight. It comes from Isabella Tree's book, which follows her and Charlie Burrell as they "re-wild" their estate in West Sussex. The results are remarkable, including the return of nightingales & storks!

HOW’S SHE CUTTING?! A finished copy arrived today From my weary heart to your fabulous bookshelves I invite you to visit Library of Brothel. May 26, 2026 - Canada Jan 12, 2027 US/UK @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social Probably my most unique/ambitious novel. A FUCK AI, gimme a job or stigmata novel ❤️🧠

New review: Gwendoline Riley's latest, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑎𝑙𝑚 𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒 www.complete-review.com/reviews/popg...

Sonya Walger's Lion is on the list! It's a wonderful book we published last year. Congrats to Sonya and all the other nominees.

Tom McCarthy on Ingeborg Bachmann tomorrow (6:30pm) at the Austrian Cultural Forum in NYC (11 E. 52 St.) @nottinghilleds.bsky.social published McCarthy's book on Bachmann, The Threshold and the Ledger, and we are doing his next novel, They Rhyl Poster.

"Extracting personal details from her requires persistence." Thessaly La Force profiles Gwendoline Riley for the NYT. Riley's new book, The Palm House, is out now.

It’s 50 years since Renata Adler’s incomparable novel ‘Speedboat’ was published: illuminative and dangerous as a lightning strike, bitingly funny, caustically insightful and marvellously stylish. Pub in US @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, just reissued @wnbooks.bsky.social with intro by Hilton Als.

Matt Hanson on a trio of handsome new editions of books by #nancylemann. Lemann is a born and raised New Orleanian, and her mind is never far from the eccentricities of the crescent city. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @hubcitypress.bsky.social artsfuse.org/327551/book-...

My review of this charming, smart, chatty novel. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social has also just reissued Lemann's Lives of the Saints. So glad her work is gettting new life - it was new to me and I'm eager to dig into other titles.

Lucky Edinburgh-ites(??) can see Lisa Tuttle discussing her creepy-great novella My Death with Brigid Lowe tomorrow, 16 April. @portybooks.bsky.social www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/lisa-...

Clare Carlisle on the podcast Everyday Anarchism with Graham Culbertson. They ponder how connecting to the here and now can lead to a higher fulfillment in life, via George Eliot, Kierkegaard, and Spinoza. And tradwives.

Boston— Tonight, Clare Carlisle will be speaking with James Wood on her new book, Transcendence for Beginners, at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social. Starts at 7pm New York— On Thursday, Carlisle will be speaking with Simon Critchley at McNally Jackson Seaport. Also starts at 7pm.

In Pierre Guyotat's IDIOCY, Eric Byrd finds "an unrestrainable witness, politically outraged and personally esoteric, an orphic scream from the ranks in step." Read his review of this "memoir of runaway youth and military servitude" (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social). ocreviewofbooks.org/2026/04/14/p...

Gwendoline Riley's The Palm House is out today in the US. It's been earning rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic; here's Samir Chadha on her dialogue: "It's always itchy, a blend of compulsion and distress, a desperate hope that the next thing they say might offer some relief."

FYI. Did you catch this talk? Gwendoline Riley is brilliant in it. youtu.be/5fdVA-iU6ms?...

The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley review – the laureate of bad relationships

Publishing publicity plan circa 1958

Tonight. 7pm. Nancy Lemann discusses her new book, her first in 20 years, as well as cult-classic Lives of the Saints and new-journalism Ritz on the Bayou, with Susan Minot at McNally Jackson Seaport.

OMG. She deserves it.

Amit Chaudhuri on monuments at @nplusonemag.com

"Her tendency to repeat herself, the compulsion that gives her work such a musical quality and that has so confounded reviewers...is both her greatest tool and her greatest theme. Perhaps, she suggests, repetition could be seen less as a compulsion than as a mark of inimitable style."

We didn't coin it but "The Lemannaissance" is here.

Clare Carlisle's new book, Transcendence for Beginners is out today. Writing, reading, traveling, and loving are mixed into a philosophy of how to live and how to think about life.

The Bureau of General Services (Queer Division) has been a queer bookstore and community space for 14 years, and can be for many more, with a little help. Please contribute and share.

I wrote about Leslie Fiedler, style, and criticism for @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/was-...

"The Universal Baseball Association is part of the great American postmodern canon. Come and play." Good literary criticism here.

"These are books for the misanthropes, the anti-socialites, those with negative self-regard. (You know who you are.)" New York Times heralds the return of Nancy Lemann, and her entrance into the canon of New Orleans writers.

NYRB Classics edition of G. coming in June.

We are on notice.

Nancy Lemann tonight in Oxford, MS. It's free. She'll be talking about the trial for racketeering, fraud, and bribery of Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards, which is the subject of her book The Ritz of the Bayou. @hubcitybookshop.bsky.social

Richard Hell talks about what it's like having his book, Godlike, published by NYRB, and humiliating himself in front of the staff.

Nancy Lemann will be at Lemuria Bookstore in Jackson, MS, tonight at 5pm. She'll be speaking with Snowden Wright.

"the book speaks not just to gay male experience but to how queer life renews a curiosity about the constructed nature of the self generally." Eric Dean Wilson on Robert Glück's Jack the Modernist @evergreenreview.bsky.social

Eileen Chang's Time Tunnel, translated by Karen Kingsbury & Jie Zhang, is on the shortlist! "Thirty years after her death, Time Tunnel...reaffirms Eileen Chang’s place as one of the 20th century’s finest writers.... proving that with Eileen Chang, there are no marginal texts, only hidden gems."

In the early 2000s Brad Neely shoved zines of Creased Comics in the box of the comics editor at The Daily Texan. People loved them. Neely and the editor never communicated. Now the comics are in a book which will Neely will show you at @bookpeople.com tonight 7pm.