NYRB archive, including complaining letters from Henry Kissinger and some surprising rejections, sold to NYPL
Yesterday the New York Public Library’s Board of Trustees announced that the library had acquired approximately 3,000 linear feet of editorial materials from the New York Review of Books archive. The papers date… Read more »
Three for Tuesday: An Interview with Tim Parks
Topics discussed: mozzarella sticks, Nick During, incompetence, silliness, fear, Martin Amis, Facebook comments, George Orwell, the New York Review of Books, Charlie Hebdo, Henry Green, the Nobel Prize, John Banville, Tomas Tranströmer, Karl Ove… Read more »
Few surprises from the 2014 VIDA Count
Drum roll please. The 2014 VIDA Count has been revealed. Vida represents Women in Literary Arts and undertakes an annual survey to profile the gender (and now race) of contributors… Read more »
The Nation celebrates 150th anniversary
How does one of the nation’s leading magazines celebrate 150 years of publication? With appropriate pomp and circumstance. The Nation, the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States,… Read more »
The New York Review of Books and Vice team up. Wait, why are you laughing?
Earlier this week, Capital New York reported on a new partnership between the New York Review of Books and Vice News. Capital is an excellent publication (full disclosure: I have… Read more »
n+1 celebrates, anthologizes tenth anniversary
The Partisan Review survived for nearly seven decades, and last year, the New York Review of Books turned fifty. But these numbers deceive. For most literary magazines (except for the… Read more »
Where’s Barbara Epstein in the Scorsese NYRB documentary?
This week saw the release of the trailer for Martin Scorsese’s documentary on the New York Review of Books, “The 50 Year Argument,” which had its TV premiere in the… Read more »
Martin Scorsese documentary stars Bob Silvers and the New York Review of Books
A Martin Scorsese documentary starring Bob Silvers and the New York Review of Books was screened at the Sheffield Documentary Festival earlier this month, and will be coming to the… Read more »
The New York He-View of Books: Latest issue includes one woman
The London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books must be holding a secret competition, like the “quiet game” my parents encouraged me to play as a kid… Read more »
Georges Perec’s dreams: “Fifty Kilos of Quality Meat”
Over at the New York Review of Books blog, you’ll find an excerpt from our forthcoming La Boutique Obscure: 124 Dreams by Georges Perec, in a translation by Daniel Levin… Read more »