New York Review Books imprint: 50 books
The Cowshed
Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The Chinese Cultural Revolution began in 1966 and led to a ten-year-long reign of Maoist terror throughout China, in which millions died or were sent to labor camps in the country or subjected to other forms of extreme discipline and humiliation. Ji Xianlin was one of them. The Cowshed is Ji’s harrowing...
by Amit Chaudhuri
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
An intensely personal novel about childhood, memory, and history by one of today's most celebrated authors, now available in the US for the first time.
Friend of My Youth begins with the novelist Amit Chaudhuri returning to Bombay, the city in which he grew up, to give a reading. Ramu, the...
No Ordinary Men
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi, Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
During the twelve years of Hitler’s Third Reich, very few Germans took the risk of actively opposing his tyranny and terror, and fewer still did so to protect the sanctity of law and faith. In No Ordinary Men, Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern focus on two remarkable, courageous men who did—the...
by Henri Cole
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A poetic portrait of Paris that combines prose poetry, diary, and memoir by award-winning writer and poet Henri Cole.
Henri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning...
Out of My Head
On the Trail of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
Adventures in cutting-edge ideas about consciousness, from bestselling non-fiction writer Tim Parks.
Hardly a day goes by without some discussion about whether computers can be conscious, whether our universe is some kind of simulation, whether mind is a unique quality of human beings or spread...
The Resurgence of Central Asia
Islam or Nationalism?
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
A seminal introduction to the rise of Central Asia following the collapse of Tsarist Russia, this book has been out of print for two decades and is now more relevent than ever.
The Resurgence of Central Asia is Ahmed Rashid’s seminal study of the states that emerged in the aftermath of the...
Liu Xiaobo's Empty Chair
Chronicling the Reform Movement Beijing Fears Most; Includes the full text of Charter 08 and other primary documents
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
When the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced it was awarding the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to the Chinese literary critic and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo, it made special note of his role in writing a remarkable political manifesto called Charter 08. In China, that same document has caused officials...
by Ramon del Valle-Inclan
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
An NYRB Classics Original
The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for García Márquez’s The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos’s I, the Supreme, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American republic in the...
by Francois Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
The most inovative study of Chinese poetry ever written, François Cheng's Chinese Poetic Writing--now in its first expanded, English-language edition--is an essential read for fans and scholars of Chinese literature and the art of poetry in general.
Since its first publication in French in 1977,...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
First published anonymously in 1804—its author remains unknown—Mirage is set in Guangzhou (Canton), some decades before the city was overwhelmed by the opium trade and the Opium War. Su Jishi, the adolescent son of the head of the Chinese traders’ association, the men licensed to deal with foreign...
Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume III
From Antoni Gaudí to Maya Lin
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
An invaluable guide to lives and work of Frank Gehry, Atoni Gaudí, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Maya Lin, and other important figures of 20th and 21st century architecture.
Martin Filler's "contribution to both architecture criticism and general readers' understanding is invaluable,"...
by Ruth Scurr
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Born on the brink of the modern world, John Aubrey was witness to the great intellectual and political upheavals of the seventeenth century. He knew everyone of note in England—writers, philosophers, mathematicians, doctors, astrologers, lawyers, statesmen—and wrote about them all, leaving behind...
Ecstasy and Terror
From the Greeks to Game of Thrones
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019
This collection of essays exemplifies the range, depth, and erudition that have made Daniel Mendelsohn “required reading for anyone interested in dissecting culture” (The Daily Beast). Here Mendelsohn once again casts an eye at literature, film, television, and the personal essay, filtering his...
by Jonathan Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
A moving, dream-like novel about memory, love, and death.
David has just spent New Year’s Eve alone, watching Le Grand Concert de la Nuit, a film in which his former lover Imogen starred. In the early hours of the new year, consoled and tormented by her ethereal presence, he begins to write....