We are thrilled to receive praise from The New Yorker for Artemis Cooper’s Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure and from The Guardianfor Slavko Goldstein’s 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning.

Richard J. Evans writes in The Guardian:

“…[Goldstein’s] book does not focus solely on the sufferings of the victims, or treat their persecutors, torturers and murderers as anonymous, faceless or inhuman….In one personal history after another, the murderers appear as human beings, and in many cases as morally ambivalent rather than one-dimensionally evil. The police chief who helped Goldstein escape was also responsible for sending many to their death at the horrific concentration camp in Jasenovac – and was far from exceptional in this regard. It is this book’s achievement to give genocide a human face.”

In the January 27 issue of The New Yorker:

“Cooper’s biography is affectionate but not uncritical, and she ably meets the challenge of adding further intrigue to journeys and adventures, such as his kidnapping of a Nazi general on the island of Crete in 1944, that her subject has already recounted so well. Elusive and often coy, the Fermor who emerges from these pages seems so authentic that when he dies, at ninety-six, the reader feels the loss keenly.”

NYRB Classics is the US publisher of books written by Patrick Leigh Fermor, including A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, the volumes that tell of his journey by foot across 1930s Europe. The final volume of the trilogy, The Broken Road, will be published in March 2014.

We’re pleased to announce that Artemis Cooper’s biography, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, has been chosen by The New York Times as a Notable Book of 2013. In his review in The New York Times, Christopher Benfey wrote Cooper “has written an affectionately intimate, informative and forgiving biography.”

NYRB Classics is the US publisher of books written by Patrick Leigh Fermor, including A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, the volumes that tell of his journey by foot across 1930s Europe. The final volume of the trilogy, The Broken Road, will be published in March 2014.

On Thursday, November 14, Slavko Goldstein will talk about his new book, 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning, the astounding account of the fateful year when his father was arrested and taken away by Croatian fascists. Goldstein’s account blends his family’s history with the larger history of Yugoslavia during World War II.

The Harvard Coop is located at 1400 Massachusetts Ave in Cambridge, Mass. The event is from 7–8pm. For more information, visit the Coop’s website.

1941, The Year That Keeps Returning is the astonishing memoir by award-winning author, editor, and publisher Slavko Goldstein of the fateful year when the pro-fascist nationalists in Croatia were brought to power by the Nazi occupiers of Yugoslavia.

Slavko Goldstein and Charles Simic in Conversation, Barnes & Noble, Upper West Side At 7pm on November 12, Poet and frequent New York Review contributor Charles Simic, who has written the introduction to 1941, will join Goldstein for a conversation about this important new book. Of 1941, Simic writes, “It deserves attention because it explains, perhaps better than any book I know of, how different ethnic groups, who lived side by side in peace for centuries, were made to turn against one another and become each other’s executioners in that unhappy country.” For more information, visit the Barnes & Noble website.

Slavko Goldstein and Colm Tóibón in Conversation, Community Bookstore, BrooklynAt 7pm on November 13, Slavko Goldstein will discuss his new book with award-winning writer Colm Tóibón at Community Bookstore in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Colm Tóibón is the author of many books, including The Testament of Mary, Brooklyn, andMothers and Sons. Of Goldstein, Tóibón writes, “he has a great gift as a story-teller, but also as someone with a forensic intelligence, and it is this combination which makes the book so engaging.” For more information, visit the Community Bookstore’s website.

Slavko Goldstein and Daniel Mendelsohn in Conversation, Museum of Jewish Heritage, Battery Park New York Review contributor Daniel Mendelsohn is the author of the award-winning The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, the account of his search for details about six family members who were killed during the Holocaust. Mendelsohn will speak with Slavko Goldstein about 1941 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place. Tickets are $10, $7 for students and seniors, $5 for members, and can be purchased on the Museum’s website or at the door.

On Monday, November 4 at 7 pm, Artemis Cooper will give a talk about the new biography, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, at Barnes and Noble on the Upper East Side, 150 E 86th Street, New York. The talk will include a visual presentation, and is part of the B&N Writers on Writers series.

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On Tuesday, November 5 at 7pm, Artemis Cooper will discuss the new biography at McNally Jackson, 52 Prince Street, New York. She will accompany her talk with a visual presentation of images from the legendary explorer’s life and times.

For more information, click here.

The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares, published by NYRB Classics, was the inspiration for Alain Resnais’s 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad.

Critic and New York Review contributor J. Hoberman will introduce the film. Alain Robbe-Grillet’s screenplay was nominated for an Oscar.

This is Film Forum’s third event celebrating the 50th anniversary of The New York Review of Books.

Tickets are $12.50, $7 for members, and can be purchased at the Film Forum’s site.