NYRB's edition brought the unabridged saga to anglophone readers for the first time, in a masterful translation by Jenny McPhee, and introduced Morante—still criminally underappreciated in the U ...

Writing the history of the novel, even covering a limited period, is a challenge. No one could possibly read every novel that ...

And first, a closer look at NYRB editorial director Edwin Frank’s new ‘Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century ...

the editorial director of New York Review Books and founder of its NYRB Classics series, explores twentieth-century novels through a personally chosen and idiosyncratic list of 32 titles (that ...

Neither aspiring to perfect coherence nor succumbing to the deepest darkness of incomprehensibility, WAITING FOR THE FEAR (NYRB Classics, 208 pp., paperback, $16.95) is an astonishing, deeply wry ...

That may be so. But after spending any time with this beguiling novel, one feels sure there will never be another Torres. Adapted from Dustin Illingworth’s introduction to The Rest is Silence by ...