New York: New York Review Books, 1999. Eighth Printing. Trade Paperback. Introduction by Tim Parks, translated from the Italian by Angus Davidson Contempt is a brilliant and unsettling work by one of the revolutionary masters of modern European literature. All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2015. Charles Burns (cover illustration). Third Printing. Trade Paperback. “The true weird tale has something more than a secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains. An atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; a hint..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2017. Reprint. Paperback. Things Victor loves: pizza with anchovies, grape soda, B movies aired at midnight, the evening news. And with his parents off at a resort and his older sister shirking her babysitting duties, Victor has plenty of time to..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2019. First Printing. Trade Paperback. In Greek mythology, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of red thread to guide him through the labyrinth, and the Red Thread offers a path through and a way to explore the ins and outs and twists and turns of..... More
New York: New York Review Comics, 2018. Gébé (illustrations). First Printing. Trade Paperback. A new translation from the French by Edward Gauvin Amid the blasted rubble of a once-perfect suburb, a hazmat-suited postman delivers the mail, aloud. He shouts his letters down a vent to the bunker-bound family below..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2013. Eric Hanson (cover art). Third Printing. Paperback. Introduction by William Gibson. In Kingsley Amis’s virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2002. Katy Homans (cover design). Fourth Printing. Paperback. With an introduction by Jonathan Lethem. A major American novel, and arguably the finest work of literature ever to emerge from a US prison, On the Yard is a book of penetrating psychological realism..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2011. Garth Williams (illustrations). Second Printing. Trade Paperback. Miss Bianca is a white mouse of great beauty and supreme self-confidence, who, courtesy of her excellent young friend, the ambassador’s son, resides luxuriously in a porcelain pagoda painted with violets, primroses, and lilies of the..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2018. David McPhail (illustrations). First Printing. Trade Paperback. Anatole has a knack for seeking and finding adventure, often with Plumpet, his orange cat, who is accustomed to ghost trains, amnesiac soldiers, flying horses, and wallpaper portals, just a few of the enchantments encountered along..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2014. Ari Larissa Heinrich (tr.). Third Printing. Paperback. When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind her unpublished masterpiece, Last Words from Montmartre. Unfolding through a series of letters written by an unnamed narrator..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2018. Marion Freeman Wakeman (illustrations). Reprint. Paperback. Whether you are five or one hundred and five, chances are you’ve never met a lobster as learned and charming as Mr. Lobster—and he’d be the very first to tell you so. Mr. Lobster has evaded..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2004. Eighth Printing. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Susan Sontag, translated from the French by Willard R. Trask One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins..... More
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