On the weekend of September 15th and 16th, NYRB will have booths at the Brooklyn Book Festival and the Brooklyn Book Festival Children’s Day.

The Brooklyn Book Festival Children’s Day will be held at MetroTech Commons on Saturday, September 15th, from 10-4. We will be at booth #30 with a selection of our children’s books available at discounted prices.

The Brooklyn Book Festival will be held on Sunday, September 16th, from 10-6, at Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza, 209 Joralemon Street. Find us at booth numbers 409 and 410, where we will have discounted books and free issues of The New York Review of Books.

We were thrilled to read Cynthia Zarin's New Yorker review of Iris Origo's A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939-1940. Zarin writes:

It’s almost impossible to imagine a better time to read A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939–1940...Trenchant, intelligent, and written with a cool head...it can be read not only as a historical document but as an urgent message, a stealth paper airplane sent to us from a shadowed past...One of the vital interests of the diary is watching the alert, perspicacious mind of a supremely intelligent person coming alive to the situation around her.

Read the rest of the review here, and learn more about A Chill in the Air, which includes an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, and an afterword by Origo's granddaughter Katia Lysy, here. NYRB Classics also publishes Origo's War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944, with an introduction by Virginia Nicholson.

 

NYRB Poets will present a reading featuring Chloe Garcia Roberts, poet and the translator of Li Shangyin, and scholar Lawrence Kramer, editor of Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps, at the 2018 New York City Poetry Festival on Governor's Island (Colonels Row, Clayton Rd, Brooklyn, NY). The reading will take place on the Algonquin stage. For details visit the festival website.

We are excited to announce that Paul Eprile, translator of the NYRB Classics edition of Jean Giono's Melville: A Novel, has been named one of the winners of the 2018 Translation Prize, awarded by the French-American Foundation. Learn more about the prize here. 

 

New York Review Comics will be attending the 2018 Toronto Comic Arts Fair (TCAF) and a couple of NYRC artists will be there for events and book signings as well. Visit the NYR Comics tables in the exhibit hall (#109 and #110) to see the latest NYRC titles and talk to NYRC staff and check out the following events with Yvan Alagbé, author of Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures, and Chris Reynolds, author of The New World: Comics from Mauretania.

BOOK SIGNINGS at NYR Comics table:

Yvan Alagbé

Saturday, May 12, from 2-3pm
Sunday, May 13, from 2-3pm

Chris Reynolds

Saturday, May 12, from 12-1pm
Sunday, May 13, from 1-2pm

SPECIAL EVENTS:

Saturday, May 12, 11am: "Contemporary French Comics" panel w/ Yvan Alagbé in the High Park Ballroom #2/3 in the Marriott Bloor Yorkville.

Saturday, May 12, 11am: Spotlight on Chris Reynolds & Seth, editor and designer of The New World, in the Toronto Reference Library, 1st Floor.

Saturday, May 12, 4pm: Spotlight on Yvan Alagbé with Mark Nevins, in the High Park Ballroom #1 in the Marriott Bloor Yorkville.

Sunday, May 13, 11am, "Finding Your Publishing Niche," a panel with Yvan Alagbé, Francoise Mouly, and others in the High Park Ballroom #1 in the Marriott Bloor Yorkville.

For more information, visit our events page.

We were delighted to hear that the translators of Teffi's memoir, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea won the 2018 Read Russia Prize for the best translation of Russian literature into English. The translation by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson, and Irina Steinberg is published by NYRB Classics in the US and by Pushkin in the UK. For more information about the prize and the honorable mentions, visit the Read Russia website here.

Congratulations to Paul Eprile who has just been announced as a finalist for 2018 French-American Foundation Translation Prize for his work on Jean Giono's Melville: A Novel. The winner of the prize will be announced at the awards ceremony, which will be held on Friday, May 11 in New York City.

To see a full list of finalists, visit the French-American Foundation website here.