New York Review Books imprint: 50 books
Abducting a General
The Kreipe Operation in Crete
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
One of the most daring feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s daring life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on April 26, 1944.
Abducting a General, now published for the first time in the United States, is Leigh Fermor’s own account of the kidnapping. Written...
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The first extensive collection of letters written by war hero and travel writing legend Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Handsome, spirited, and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a wonderful friend.
The letters in...
by Freeman Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
From Galileo to today’s amateur astronomers, scientists have been rebels, writes Freeman Dyson. Like artists and poets, they are free spirits who resist the restrictions their cultures impose on them. In their pursuit of nature’s truths, they are guided as much by imagination as by reason, and...
Things That Bother Me
Death, Freedom, the Self, Etc.
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
An original collection of lauded philosopher Galen Strawson's writings on the self and consciousness, naturalism and pan-psychism.
Galen Strawson might be described as the Montaigne of modern philosophers, endlessly curious, enormously erudite, unafraid of strange, difficult, and provocative...
Essayism
On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
A compelling ode to the essay form and the great essaysists themselves, from Montaigne to Woolf to Sontag.
Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love letter to belle-lettrists, and an account of the indispensable lifelines of reading and writing....
Gaslight
Lantern Slides from the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A one-of-a-kind exploration of the 19th century that ties the time period to our own through essays on a variety of topics in music, film, literature, and art.
In Gaslight, Joachim Kalka delves into the mythos of the nineteenth century, exploring our fascination with its “auratic gaslight,”...
In Tearing Haste
Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Now in paperback, Patrick Leigh Fermor and Deborah Devonshire's witty, informative, and altogether delightful correspondence.
In the spring of 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters, invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore...
The Moth Snowstorm
Nature and Joy
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths “would pack a car’s headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard,” is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those species...
The Shipwrecked Mind
On Political Reaction
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
We don’t understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla in this timely book, the ideas and passions that shape today’s political dramas are unintelligible to us.
The reactionary is anything but a conservative. He is as radical and modern a figure as the revolutionary, someone...
by Yasmine El Rashidi, Timothy Garton Ash
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
In a series of riveting dispatches, Cairo native Yasmine El Rashidi provides an eyewitness account of the entire 2011 Egyptian Revolution as it unfolded, from its origins in the days leading up to the first January 25 protest in Tahrir Square through the violent confrontations with the regime and...
The Wages of Guilt
Memories of War in Germany and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In this now classic book, internationally famed journalist Ian Buruma examines how Germany and Japan have attempted to come to terms with their conduct during World War II—a war that they aggressively began and humiliatingly lost, and in the course of which they committed monstrous war crimes. As...
Blackballed
The Black Vote and US Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Blackballedis Darryl Pinckney’s meditation on a century and a half of participation by blacks in US electoral politics. In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, he investigates the struggle for black voting rights from Reconstruction through...
Wild Geese Returning
Chinese Reversible Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
A breathtaking introduction to Chinese multidirectional poems, told through the story of Su Hui, the greatest writer of these poems who embroidered a silk with 840 characters--equaling as many as 12,000 multidirectional poems--for her distant husband.
For nearly two thousand years, the condensed...
by Lucas Klein
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Selected as one of the sixty-five masterpieces for the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works
The fu, or rhyme-prose, is a major poetic form in Chinese literature, most popular between the 2nd century b.c. and 6th century a.d. Unlike what is usually considered Chinese poetry, it is a hybrid...