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, 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, 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, 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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