Tove Jansson’s illustrations for a rare 1966 edition of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” are melancholy, complex and occasionally scary.

NYRB's edition brought the unabridged saga to anglophone readers for the first time, in a masterful translation by Jenny McPhee, and introduced Morante—still criminally underappreciated in the U ...

And first, a closer look at NYRB editorial director Edwin Frank’s new ‘Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century ...

the editorial director of New York Review Books and founder of its NYRB Classics series, explores twentieth-century novels through a personally chosen and idiosyncratic list of 32 titles (that ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site ... WAITING FOR THE FEAR (NYRB Classics, 208 pp., paperback, $16.95) is an astonishing, deeply wry example, a collection of ...

Writing the history of the novel, even covering a limited period, is a challenge. No one could possibly read every novel that ...

This year, the prize goes to the Italian poet Antonella Anedda for her book “Historiae” (NYRB), translated from the Italian by Susan Stewart and Patrizio Ceccagnoli. “Once in a while I use a ...