If you're attending MLA at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia this week, be sure to stop by our booth (#514) for discounted books and free copies of The New York Review of Books.

2016 was a good year for New York Review Books, and we want to thank you, dear readers, for your support. We're thrilled to find our books on 2016's "Best of" lists, and wanted to share the highlights. 

Iza's Ballad by Magda Szabó was included in The New York Times Book Review's "100 Notable Books of 2016."

Mark Lilla's The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction received a rave review from John Banville in The Guardian, and was one of his picks for The Irish Times's "Our Favourite Books of 2016" list. 

Simon Schama chose Magda Szabó's The Door—one of The New York Times "10 Best Books of 2015"—for Financial Times's "Best Books of 2016."

Patrick Modiano's In the Café of Lost Youth made The Boston Globe's "Best Books of 2016" list. 

For the TLS's Books of the Year, Michael Hofmann chose Alfred Hayes's My Face for the World to See, Leo Robson named Henry Green's Caught, and Adam Thirlwell mentioned Eve Babitz's Slow Days, Fast Company. 

J.H. Prynne's The White Stones, from our NYRB Poets imprint, is on the Chicago Tribune's "Best Poetry Books of 2016" list. 

Peplum by Blutch, from our NYR Comics imprint, was on NPR's Guide to 2016's Greatest Reads and The Globe and Mail's "Globe 100: Best Books of the Year."

Rachel Cooke selected Soft City by Pushwagner and What Am I Doing Here? by Abner Dean for the Observer's (UK) best graphic books of 2016, and The New York Times Book Review also chose Soft City for its list of "The Season's Best New Graphic Novels." 

Agony by Mark Beyer and Peplum by Blutch were included in The A.V. Club's "Best Comics of 2016." The A.V. Club also included Patrick Modiano's In the Café Our Lost Youth on their "Favorite Books of 2016" list. 

The Guardian's Nicholas Lezard chose John Aubrey, My Own Life by Ruth Scurr and Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier by Jon Day, from Notting Hill Editions, as two favorites from 2016. John Aubrey was also included on The Believer's "Favorite Books of 2016."

Kirsty Gunn's My Katherine Mansfield Project (Notting Hill Editions) was selected by Deborah Levy and Amit Chaudhuri for The Guardian's "Best Books of 2016." Chaudhuri also selected Cesar Pavese's The Moon and the Bonfires. 

On Wednesday, December 7, at 7:30pm, Paul Giamatti will present an evening of short fiction from NYRB Classics at Symphony Space's Selected Shorts. Performers will include Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm in the Middle), Billy Porter (Kinky Boots), and Kathryn Erbe (Law & Order: Criminal Intent). For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit Symphony Space's website.

Join us at the Astoria Bookshop (31-29 31st Street, Astoria) this Thursday, November 17, at 7pm, for a panel on essay writing with Kirsty Gunn, Daniel Mendelsohn, and Phillip Lopate, with Michele Filgate as moderator. The evening will also be a celebration of the US publication of Gunn's book My Katherine Mansfield Project. For more information, visit Astoria Bookshop's website.

Join Mark Lilla, author of The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction, for these upcoming conversations with special guests about the origins of reactionary politics and the 2016 Presidential Election. Books will be available for sale and to be signed at each of these events.

Wednesday, November 2, 7pm
Community Bookstore
143 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Mark Lilla and George Packer discuss the 2016 Presidential Election. Free. More info here.

Thursday, November 3, 7pm
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 5th Ave (at 34th St), New York City
Mark Lilla delivers the 2016 Irving Howe Memorial Lecture. The event will be live-streamed here. Presented with the Center for Humanities. Free. Click here for more info.

If you missed Ruth Scurr's events for her book John Aubrey, My Own Life, in New York and Cambridge, you can still hear her discuss and read from the book at events this week and next. 

Tonight, September 22, at 7 p.m., Scurr will be in conversation with fellow historian Amanda Foreman at Book Culture on Columbus (450 Columbus Ave, New York). Read more about the event here. 

On Monday, September 26, at 7:30 p.m., Scurr will discuss John Aubrey, My Own Life with Anthony Grafton at the Free Library of Philadelphia (1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia). More information here. 

Join NYRB at this year's Brooklyn Book Festival, starting with Children's Day on September 17th and then the main festival on September 18th. 

On Children's Day (9/17) find us at booth 20, in the Metrotech Commons of Downtown Brooklyn, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., where we'll have an assortment of our children's books at discounted prices.

On Sunday, September 18th, stop by booths 309 and 310 at the main Brooklyn Book Festival at 209 Joralemon Street, where we’ll have books at discounted prices, free copies of the latest issue of The New York Review of Books, and more.

At 2 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, cartoonist and Almost Completely Baxter author Glen Baxter will join cartoonists Ben Katchor (Cheap Novelties) and Emily Flake (Mama Tried) on a panel titled "Hey, Some Comics Are Still Funny!" moderated by "Connie to the Wonnie" web cartoonist Connie Sun. The panel will be held at the Brooklyn Historical Society Auditorium, 128 Pierrepont Street. 

This Saturday, July 30, come visit us at the 2016 Small Press Flea outside the Brooklyn Public Library at 10 Grand Army Plaza. The Flea is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and we will have giveaways and books at discounted prices.