New York Review of Books

Weaving a tapestry of creativity and circumstance, this lauded chronicle of the many links and serendipitous meetings between giants of American culture?rom Henry James to Gertrude Stein to Zora...

Winner of the UK?s Encore Award for best second novel, a lyrical story of a Bengali student at Oxford University who is caught in the complications of a love triangle. Afternoon Raag is a book of...

A moving tale about a brave hearing-impaired teen losing his vision, told through the perspective of his loving sister in poetry, prose, and the sign-language alphabet. Carlo is a teenager who...

The Russian master's most infamous novel, a dystopian fever dream about cloning, alternative histories, and world domination. Blue Lard is an act of desecration. Blue Lard is what's left after the...

The great poet Eugenio Montale was also a remarkable writer of prose whose stories appeared regularly in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. Butterfly of Dinard is a collection of fifty of...

Chevengur is a revolutionary novel about revolutionary ardor and despair. Zakhar Pavlovich comes from a world of traditional crafts to work as a train mechanic, motivated by his belief in the...

A classic picture book about the special friendship between an owl and a dog, written and illustrated by a master of children's literature. Day and Night is a classic Duvoisin tale about two unlikely...

This whimsical classic is a perfect read-aloud book for kids ages 3?7, with charmingly silly rhymes that will inspire giggles and out-of-the-box thinking. The celebrated author of The Carrot Seed...

Inspired, seminal translations of one of the greatest poets of all time by Edna St. Vincent Millay and George Dillon, now available in a sleek new edition. Charles Baudelaire invented modern poetry,...

A dark thriller about a boy forcibly made apprentice to a sorcerer, set against enchanted woods and shadowy ruins. "One of my favorite books." ?Neil Gaiman New Year?s has passed. Twelfth Night is...

Late Montale is a generous selection of the poems that the Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale wrote in the last decade of his life, including many drawn from notebooks he entrusted to his housekeeper,...

Here is the perfect gift for all insomniacs: a feast of intriguing puzzles, rhymes, limericks, and other entertainments devised by the author of Alice in Wonderland to help pass what he called ?the...

Álvaro Mutis?s fantastical, gripping, unnerving tales of the exploits and adventures of Maqroll, the Gaviero, or watchman, an inveterate wanderer both on land and sea, are among the most beloved...

Two supernatural crime fighters and their Rorschach-blotted best friend stumble into a plot involving UFOs, giant mollusks, and the Maluku Islands in this vivid, madcap adventure by a contemporary...

By Xi Xi, part of the first generation of writers raised in Hong Kong, a wise and amiably written book of autobiographical fiction on the author?s experience with breast cancer?from diagnosis to...

If you were alive in twentieth-century America, you knew Ernie Bushmiller?s Nancy?and this new collection assembles some of the greatest strips featuring the much-loved cartoon icon and her pug-nosed...

A classic character of Japanese literature is reimagined as a mischievous, shapeshifting adventurer in this zany, Pop Art?lavored gag manga by a titan of the genre. Ninja! Samurai! Cowboys! Aliens!...

Winner of the most prestigious German prize for debut fiction, Swiss playwright and visual artist Ariane Koch?s Overstaying is an absurdist tour de force. ?I don't see my writing as chronological or...

Extended comic turns like The Queue and relentless, mind-bending, genre-shredding extravaganzas like Ice Trilogy have established Vladimir Sorokin as a master of the contemporary novel. It is to...

A delicate, dreamlike, and lushly detailed comics collection by a contemporary artist whose work explores the enmeshment of the human and non-human worlds. For years, Aidan Koch? comics have been...

Three hilarious, quirky tales about a young city girl's adventures big and small, from taking a taxi to meeting the president. Lore Segal's classic children's book tells three stories about Mitzi and...

Imagine your whole day lived backward, from beginning to end. When you got up, you?d put on your jacket, then your shirt and pants, and over those your underwear, because after all, backward is...

Step into New York City's 777 Garden Avenue, the building where Chris Raschka's charming and funny The Doorman's Repose takes place. Filled with unforgettable characters that bring the city to life,...

A new translation of one of Balzac?s finest novels, this tale of misguided passion centers on a young aristocrat who falls into a cloaked, coded entanglement with an older countess?a relationship...

It?s bad news when you wake up in the morning and find you?ve lost your head, especially if it?s an especially agreeable and handsome head, but there you go, such things happen. In any case, the man...

An illuminating selection of writings on a wide variety of topics?everything from technique, music theory, and daily routine to spirituality and systemic racism?from the personal journals of Sonny...

A new, haunting rendering of the ancient Indian stories ?Tales of the Vetala.? The twenty-five tales included in The Oceans of Cruelty constitute one of the oldest collections of stories in the...

A rousing history of the penalty kick and its introduction in English football by a famed British writer & editor. ?Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for ninety minutes and at...

By ?arguably the most important Irish writer since Samuel Beckett? (The Guardian), a character study of a young resident of Dublin who pens erotica for a living, making his money through fantasy...

In this delightful, cinema-inspired daydream of a novel, an identity-shifting protagonist uses the everyday inspirations of his life to catapult himself into the realm of imagination, blurring the...