New York: New York Review Books, 1999. Fourth Printing. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by John William Ward In 1892, Alexander Berkman, Russian émigré, anarchist, and lover of Emma Goldman, attempted to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The act was intended both as retribution for the massacre of workers..... More
New York: New York Review Books/The Little Bookroom, 2009. Second Printing. Trade Paperback. “Beth Elon not only tastes Tuscany, she savors every flavor, turns down every enticing road, and joyously reveals her long, profound, and continuing appreciation of this place of endless pleasures.“—Frances Mayes “What Beth Elon has given..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2019. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Edited and with an introduction by Geoff Dyer You could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant, endlessly controversial novelist who transformed, for better and for..... 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 Books, 2002. Eighth Printing. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Clarissa Dickson Wright Long acknowledged as the inspiration for such modern masters as Julia Child and Claudia Roden, A Book of Mediterranean Food is Elizabeth David’s passionate mixture of recipes, culinary lore, and frank..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2001. Fifth Printing. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Joan Didion The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America’s most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 1999. Eleventh Printing. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas The distinguished British man of letters J. R. Ackerley hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, well into middle age, he came into possession of a German shepherd. To..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2018. First Printing. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Jon Wiener, and a new preface by the author Political Action is a how-to book for activists that was written at one of the darkest moments of the Nixon administration and remains no..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2014. Madeline G. Levine (tr). Second Printing. Trade Paperback. On August 1, 1944, Miron Białoszewski, later to gain renown as one of Poland’s most innovative poets, went out to run an errand for his mother and ran into history. With Soviet forces on the..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2016. Fourth Printing. Trade Paperback. Introduction by J.M.G Le Clézio, translated from the French by Jonathan Griffin. The French film director Robert Bresson was one of the great artists of the twentieth century and among the most radical, original, and radiant stylists of..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2007. Fourth Printing. Trade Paperback. Russell Page, one of the legendary gardeners and landscapers of the twentieth century, designed gardens great and small for clients throughout the world. His memoirs, born of a lifetime of sketching, designing, and working on site, are a mixture..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2013. Second Printing. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Helen Epstein New York’s Lower East Side was said to be the most densely populated square mile on earth in the 1890s. Health inspectors called the neighborhood “the suicide ward.” Diarrhea epidemics raged each..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2013. Fourth Printing. Trade Paperback. An NYRB Classics Original Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature and one of the first Westerners to recognize the appalling toll of Mao’s Cultural..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2013. Second Printing. Trade Paperback. An NYRB Classics Original 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..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2011. Third Printing. Trade Paperback. Foreword by Adam Hochschild, notes by Richard Greeman, translated from the French by Peter Sedgwick with George Paizis Victor Serge is one of the great men of the 20th century —and one of its great writers too. He..... More
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