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A Favourite of the Gods and a Compass Error by Sybille Bedford; Daniel Mendelsohn (Preface by)
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
A Favourite of the Gods is the story of two generations of a single family, united by a strong matrilineal bond but divided by the customs of their differing nationalities. Anna Howland, the matriarch and American heiress, born in the 1870s to a prominent, liberal New England family marries an Italian p ...Show more
Down Below by Leonora Carrington
Category: Biography | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
Leonora Carrington is perhaps the most enchanting of the women Surrealists. The daughter of Anglo Irish privilege, she broke free of her manor-house upbringing and fled, first to art school, and then to the Continent. Though she is best known as a painter of the gothic fantastic, with a cult following a ...Show more
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country is vintage William H. Gass: two novellas and three short stories, set in the Midwest, exhibiting Gass's characteristic and wildly original verbal brilliance and philosophical acuity. The volume includes The Pedersen Kid, a story originally published a few years b ...Show more
Midnight in the Century by Victor Serge
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
In 1933, Victor Serge was arrested by Stalin's police, interrogated, and held in solitary confinement for more than eighty days. Released, he spent two years in exile in remote Orenburg. These experiences were the inspiration for Midnight in the Century, Serge's searching novel about revolutionaries liv ...Show more
Notes Of A Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
A New York Times Editors' Choice The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award. An NYRB Classics Original Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a ...Show more
On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simone Weil
Category: History | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
Simone Weil-philosopher, activist, mystic-is one of the most uncompromising of modern spiritual masters. In "On the Abolition of All Political Parties" she challenges the foundation of the modern liberal political order, making an argument that has particular resonance today, when the apathy and anger o ...Show more
Party Going by Henry Green; Amit Chaudhuri (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
A modernist "masterpiece" (The New York Times) that will appeal to fans of Downton Abbey and The Great Gatsby Party Going, published in 1939, is Henry Green's darkly comic valediction to what W. H. Auden famously described as the "low dishonest decade" of the 1930s. London is sunk in an impenetrable fo ...Show more
Pitch Dark by Renata Adler; Guy Trebay (Contribution by); Muriel Spark (Afterword by)
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
"Pitch Dark, Renata Adler's follow up to her prize winning book Speedboat, is a book of questions. It is also a book of false starts, red herrings, misunderstandings, and all-too-fleeting revelations. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in her affair with a married lover, and moments (conversation ...Show more
Speedboat by Renata Adler
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
"It has been more than thirty-five years since Renata Adler’s Speedboat charged through the literary establishment, blasting genre walls and pointing the way for a newly liberated way of writing. This unclassifiable work is simultaneously novel, memoir, commonplace book, confession, and critique. It is ...Show more
The Communist by Elizabeth McKenzie
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
Moody, potent, subtly apocalyptic, The Communist tells the story of Walter Ferranini, the earnest, intense, autodidact son of the working class become an Italian Communist MP who undergoes a crisis just after Khrushchev for the first time denounced the Stalinist dictatorship. Ferranini, worn-out after m ...Show more
The Door by Magda Szabo Len Rix (Translator); Ali Smith (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
Emerence is a domestic servant - strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper. When Magda, a young Hungarian writer, takes her on she never imagines how important this woman will become to her. It takes twenty years for a complex trust between them to be slowly, ca ...Show more
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by Peter Opie
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature. Going outside the nursery, with its assortment of parent-approved entertainments, to observe and investigate the day-to-da ...Show more