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Tag Archives: NYRB Classics

A Book for the Moment: On Helen Weinzweig’s <em>Basic Black With Pearls</em>
Features / Fiction

A Book for the Moment: On Helen Weinzweig’s Basic Black With Pearls

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Bloom • 2 Comments

by Martha Anne Toll

Weinzweig published her first novel at age fifty-eight.  Given her mastery of the form, it is tempting to speculate that in a different era, she might have been able to take her writing seriously at an earlier age. Continue reading →

Reading My Mother’s Mind: On Packing Up a Personal Library
Essays / Features / Nonfiction

Reading My Mother’s Mind: On Packing Up a Personal Library

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Bloom • 2 Comments

by Lisa Peet

Books had always been a language my mother and I shared when she was well . . . And yet—once I was alone in her apartment with a stack of boxes, tasked with this move, and her books were all mine to do with as I liked, I knew one thing right away: I didn’t want them. Continue reading →

Private Lives, Artful Truths: Joan Chase’s Midwestern Eden
Author Features / Features / Fiction

Private Lives, Artful Truths: Joan Chase’s Midwestern Eden

Posted on November 10, 2014 by editor • 2 Comments

by Amy Weldon

We fall back on the novel itself and on our own reactions, delving deeper into the territory of self-investigation. Which is to say, into literature. Continue reading →

Q&A With NYRB Classics Editor Edwin Frank & Translator Stephen Twilley
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Q&A With NYRB Classics Editor Edwin Frank & Translator Stephen Twilley

Posted on July 23, 2014 by editor • Leave a comment

Tomasi di Lampedusa’s language is relatively spare and direct but still formal and correct, and sprinkled with archaic terms. It is carnal and sophisticated, slyly humorous but still possessed of a kind of gravity and grace. Continue reading →

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