Sitewide sale this weekend. Buy 2 books and save 20%, 3 for 30%, or 4 or more and get 40% off. $75 for free shipping within the US. www.nyrb.com

"It's hard to imagine that any future editor will want to do a great deal more than to thank him for his labours." Edward Mendelson gets some credit for his work on our edition of Mrs. Dalloway. Also, a fascinating read by David Trotter on Virginia Woolf & Mrs. D at @lrb.co.uk

We're very pleased to have TWO translations on the American Assoc of Teachers of Slavic & East European Languages (AATSEEL) shortlist. Max Lawton for Red Pyramid, the short stories of Vladimir Sorokin. Robert & Elizabeth Chandler for Chevengur by Andrey Platonov

Our new edition of Jan Kerouac's Baby Driver came out yesterday, with an introduction by Amanda Fortini. Fortini will be discussing Kerouac and the book (which is excellent, btw) with Meghan Daum tonight at 5pm on Zoom.

Miu Miu's literary club to be held in Shanghai will read Eileen Chang. This is a good selection.

Today, November 11, @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social is officially publishing its translation of "Effingers" by Gabriele Tergit. This multi-generation saga of a Jewish family in Berlin is a masterpiece, and I highly recommend it. www.nyrb.com/products/eff... 1/5

Tonight 7pm—Steven Zipperstein and Peter Cole talking about Philip Roth and Hayim Nahman Bialik tonight at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. In person and on Zoom

Chen Jiang Hong's Dragon Flower, translated from the French by Alyson Waters, has been named to the NYT/NYPL's "Best Illustrated Children's Books" list for 2025. We are buzzing. It's a beautiful book and a beautiful tale. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...

Ira Sachs's Peter Hujar's Day, starring Ben Whishaw as Hujar and Rebecca Hall as Linda Rosenkrantz, is out in cinemas today. Congrats to all involved! and to Rosenkrantz, the author of PHD and also Talk, one of our favorites.

"What draws readers to Guyotat and the other writers of the transgressive tradition is that they are candid about violence. Violence may not be the totality of life, but it is closer to the core of it than spurious humanisms would have us believe." Ryan Ruby on Pierre Guyotat in @thebaffler.com

Nancy Lemann fans! We have a cover for our THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU reissue! @hubcitypress.bsky.social is so pleased to be working with our pals at @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social (who are publishing Nancy's new novel, as well as a reprint) for a big combined release day on April 7! Email me to get an ARC!

To celebrate the new edition of "Jack the Modernist," Robert Glück and Kay Gabriel will discuss this classic of postmodern fiction TONIGHT (7pm) at Artists Space (11 Cortland Alley, NYC).

Today. Come after you vote, NYC, or before, you'll have time. Also streaming on Zoom: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

"....it's a small, perfect treat." @shae.bsky.social has a list of "Must-Read Manga from 2025" and, rightfully, includes Miss Ruki. We don't have favorites but this book is one of our favorites.

Pierre Guyotat's Idiocy has been translated into English for the first time. On Tuesday (6pm) at La Maison Française NYU (16 Washington Mews NYC) a distinguished panel will discuss the work of one of the most radical and uncompromising writers of the 20th-century. tinyurl.com/2kda9fzu

Every Sunday I’ll be contributing a paperback column to the Observer’s New Review. Kicking things off is Driver by Mattia Filice (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social), who’s poured his experience of 2 decades working on the French rail network into an extraordinary verse novel. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Friends, Lana Lin has two events coming up next week! First up: Wednesday, November 5 with Deb Olin Unferth at First Light Bookstore in Austin! Info here: www.firstlightaustin.com/events/lana-...

We've long anticipated Mitch Abidor's book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary, coming out next month. Mitch will be discussing Serge, "an unruly revolutionary of both great courage and contradictions" tomorrow at 2pm on Zoom with Jacob Plitman.

"This kind of droll, subtle humor is typical Padgett: Clever without being mean-spirited or inaccessible, it welcomes the reader, encouraging them to explore the hidden depths in the relationship between art and life, and points to the fundamental humor found in our day-to-day existence."

Be wary of storytelling; read Peter Brooks.

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by the late Geoffrey Hayes, from his peaceful, pocket-sized 1976 book, Bear By Himself, about the joys of solitude. Among its charming, square, green-and-brown, ink-and-wash images, this is “Smelling the rain“. Reissued on 4 November by NYRB Kids. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

"The novel is a remarkable achievement of tone, acknowledging the crap aspects of the work – the early mornings and late nights; the drab, harshly lit staff lounges in which bad meals are wolfed ahead of the next departure – as well as its nobility...." @chrispower.bsky.social on Driver

"The Lord tunnels into the lost worlds of Palestine before Israel, not as counterfactual or nostalgia. It rebuilds those worlds as text, through breathtaking descriptions." Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Soraya Antonius's The Lord 4columns.org/wilson-goldi...

Nightmares, passing the test, trial period, route assignments— An excerpt from Mattia Filice's Driver, translated by Jacques Houis, is available at @thedialmag.bsky.social

"Using his vivid imagination, his artist's attention to detail, and his nearly 20 years of experience driving passenger and freight trains throughout France, Mattia Filice transmutes labor into literature...." Excellent review of Driver by Eric Vanderwall in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

Looking forward to this free + public event, a conversation with translator Sophie Duvernoy about her spectacular achievement, the sprawling Bildungsroman #Effingers by Gabriele Tergit @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, on Nov 18 at 6:30pm @goetheinstitut.bsky.social NYC. www.nyrb.com/blogs/events...

Tomorrow (Wed., 6:30pm) at the Society of Illustrations Brian Walker and Tim Dumas discuss the enduring appeal of Beetle Bailey, the unbeatable how-to-draw-comics guide, Lexicon of Comicana, and their creator, Mort Walker. This is a ticketed event, but you'll learn a lot.

Robert Glück and Miranda Mellis are doing an event together tonight in Seattle. Third Place Books in Seward Park (5041 Wilson Ave S) at 7pm. Our edition of Glück's Jack the Modernist is out next week (but will be at the store for the event). Sex hasn't been written the same since.

New Nancy Lemann book, The Oyster Diaries, coming out in April, along with NYRB edition of Lives of the Saints.

Dwayne Johnson and Benny Safdie’s ‘Lizard Music’ Lands at Amazon MGM Studios’ United Artists You read that right, although they left the person who is made this all possible off the headline: DANIEL PINKWATER!

Tom McCarthy's new book, The Threshold and the Ledger, is a sustained reading of a single poem by Ingeborg Bachmann. He'll be talking about writing on the threshold with Jeff Dolven, Lisabeth During, and Heidi Julavits on Saturday (6:30pm) at @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social (300 Nevins St., Bklyn).

I just picked up my copy of I Used to be Charming by Eve Babitz and opened it up to the first essay. "All This and The Godfather too." "I hope everyone's having a good time. I know I certainly am." – Diane Keaton #NYRBWomen25

We got the real Mrs. Dalloway.

Mattia Filice's Driver is the story of a French train driver—his shifts, his colleagues, their strikes, the anxiety that comes from being in charge of a 260-ton machine carrying 1,000 passengers. An early review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social

Joann Green Breuer writes that, there ever was anyone to handle #hayimnahmanbialik’s broad, impressive, and impressionistic craft with the acute passion it demands, it is scholar and poet Peter Cole. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social artsfuse.org/318344/poetr...

Linda Rosenkrantz profile! In advance of the release of Ira Sachs's film adaptation of her book, Peter Hujar's Day, which stars Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall. But we recommend you read her groundbreaking novel, Talk. "The culture had finally caught up with Rosenkrantz’s Warholian premise..." Yup.

Paul Griffiths @disgwylfa.bsky.social has used strict word constraints to write enchanting books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. Let Me Tell You also became this astonishingly beautiful & strange work of music created by Hans Abrahamsen. Be mesmerised.

Álvaro Enrigue, Xita Rubert, & Sam Rutter will be discussing Maunel Mujica Lainez's gothic, historic, fantastic novel, Bomarzo tonight at 7pm at Community Bookstore (143 7th Ave, Brooklyn). The event will run a bit like this....

"Political poems lead strange lives." Peter Cole on Hayim Nahman Bialik and the history of his famous poem "On the Slaughter," originally written in 1903 and still loaded with political weight and divergent interpretations. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

"Equator is founded on our conviction that the storied titles of the Anglophone West cannot be internally reformed, nor redeemed by their periodic U-turns and belated mea culpas. The time has come to create something new." Today we publish Equator's editorial declaration. Join us: www.equator.org

"A jay chided, aggressive. The aroma of wild fennel, a lure. A sportscar drove by, an impulse. Lily chased a cat, fun. We stepped off the curb. Our elbows touched, a hinge." An excerpt from Robert Glück's JACK THE MODERNIST, recently re-released by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. pghrev.com/excited/

Edward Mendelson & Francesca Wade will be discussing the writing, correcting, and reading of Mrs. Dalloway, first published 100 years ago (though the accurate text has only just come out from yours truly), TONIGHT 7pm at @bookculture.com (536 W. 112th, NYC) See you in the Upper West Side.

Tonight at 7 pm! Edward Mendelson discusses his book, THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY and the new edition of Virginia Woolf's novel from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social with Francesca Wade at @bookculture.com bit.ly/42i0NCv. @columbiaup.bsky.social

If, as a commemorative volume, "Fifty Poems" invites readers to sample the German poet #rainermariarilke more extensively, either in the original or in the range of translations currently available, it will have accomplished a valuable task. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social artsfuse.org/317870/book-...

Diane DiMassa won't be able to attend the event tonight.

"Hothead Paisan remains perhaps the most iconic of all the underground queer comics from the nineties." Jo Livingstone on Diane DiMassa and Hothead Paisan, recently published by NYR Comics.

Diane DiMassa, mother of Hothead Paisan, is in Boston tonight (7pm) at Boston Figurative Arts Center (285 Washington St., Somerville). The subject of the conversation with Joel Christian Gill? Rage. www.bostoncomicarts.org/event-detail... @bostoncomicarts.bsky.social

This Wednesday (10/8) at 7 pm! Edward Mendelson discusses his book, THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY and the new edition of Virginia Woolf's novel from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social with Francesca Wade at @bookculture.com bit.ly/42i0NCv. @columbiaup.bsky.social

The first translation of Siegfried Kracauer's "harrowing and hilarious" WWI novel, Ginster, comes out tomorrow. No battles for Ginster, stages his own minor acts of resistance far from the front.