New Books imprint: 461 books

In a huge metropolis like Milan, finding something new and exciting just around the corner rather than sticking to the same old routes is the first rule of survival. Want to get a makeover in a living room-cum-hair salon, or dine in the city’s smallest bistro? Or perhaps you’d prefer to dance...

La prolifica, cinquantennale attività di Maurizio Costanzo come autore teatrale è raccolta e sintetizzata in questo prezioso volume. Ribalta dolceamara del mondo borghese, le sue commedie riflettono con critica e garbo una sorta di istruttoria civile all’incriminato pianeta Coppia (Con assoluta...

Un libro dedicato ai malvagi certamente non basta per contenere tutti i personaggi e i casi che rientrano in questa inquietante categoria. Le pagine del presente volume ne ospitano comunque una rappresentativa selezione che dal mondo antico giunge fino ai giorni nostri. Un viaggio nel male, nel crimine,...

Immergersi nelle acque di una Spa ricavata dal caveau di una ex banca, trovare uno sfizioso negozio di abiti burlesque, assaggiare la vera pizza capitolina o stupirsi con gli effetti ottici della città, e ancora scoprire il fascinoso Palazzo della Scimmia con la luce della sua torre sempre accesa,...

Prendete un mito del XX secolo come John Lennon, ancora oggi oggetto di venerazione da parte di milioni di persone in tutto il mondo; prendete gli anni misconosciuti del suo volontario allontanamento dalla scena artistica, quando a trentacinque anni decide di interrompere la sua carriera per occuparsi...

Named one of Kirkus's Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 The House of Twenty Thousand Books is the story of Chimen Abramsky, an extraordinary polymath and bibliophile who amassed a vast collection of socialist literature and Jewish history. For more than fifty years Chimen and his wife, Miriam,...

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE PEN ART OF THE ESSAY AWARD Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as “one of the greatest...

In the first volume of Makers of Modern Architecture (2007), Martin Filler examined the emergence of that revolutionary new form of building and explored its aesthetic, social, and spiritual aspirations through illuminating studies of some of its most important practitioners, from Louis Sullivan and...

For the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world’s most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts. The New York Review Abroad not only brings together twenty-eight of the most riveting...

Why do we need fiction? Why do books need  to be printed on paper, copyrighted, read to the finish? Do we read to challenge our vision of  the world or to confirm it? Has novel writing turned into a job like any other? In Where I’m Reading From, the novelist and critic Tim Parks ranges over decades...

This is probably the most notable of all regional books about New York and Long Island. It is the work of Walt Whitman, and its pages reveal the serious professional journalist, and not seldom the poet, writing brave things in prose. The editor comments in his introduction, "Whitman, though a native...

A New York Review Books Original The distinguished Croatian journalist and publisher Slavko Goldstein says, “Writing this book about my family, I have tried not to separate what happened to us from the fates of many other people and of an entire country.” 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning...

What is really going on here? For decades Renata Adler has been asking and answering this question with unmatched urgency. In her essays and long-form journalism, she has captured the cultural zeitgeist, distrusted the accepted wisdom, and written stories that would otherwise go untold. As a staff...

Keeping Bedlam at Bay in the Prague Café tells the story of John Shirting, a socially inept, quiet young American who has left his country for mysterious reasons and, in a fast-changing capital of Eastern Europe, resolves to recreate one aspect of society in his own, crazily capitalist image. He...