The New York Review Comics edition of Syd Hoff’s The Ruling Clawss (originally published under the pseudonym A. Redfield) was written up in Jacobin this week in an appreciative article titled “Rich People are Boring.”

Jay Jackson’s Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos, published last December by New York Review Comics, has been nominated for an Eisner Award in the category “Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips” alongside collections by Lynda Barry, George Herriman, and more.

There are several events upcoming to celebrate Brian Dillon’s new book from NYRB, Affinities: On Art and Fascination, which forms a trilogy of sorts with his Essayism and Suppose a Sentence. Read on for event information and quotes from recent reviews of Affinities in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, and Vulture.

Two standout NYRB events from earlier this winter have been archived and posted online.

The first, “The Intimate Worlds of Colette,” was part of the Mechanics’ Institute’s three-day celebration of the 150th birthday of Colette, whose novels Chéri and The End of Chéri were recently translated by Paul Eprile and published by NYRB Classics in November 2022. Both Eprile and the author of the introduction of the NYRB Classics edition, Judith Thurman, took part in the event along with the writer and translator Zack Rogow.

The second, a conversation between Kilometer 101 author Maxim Osipov and the essayist and critic Becca Rothfeld, was part of Brookline Booksmith’s Transnational Reading Series.

Click through to the full post to watch the events.

Phillip Lopate, author of the forthcoming New York Review Books essay A Year and a Day, and Lore Segal, author of the forthcoming NYRB Kids book Tell Me a Mitzi, were both announced as newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters last month alongside other beloved cultural luminaries such as Percival Everett, Vivian Gornick, Frances McDormand, Francis Ford Coppola, and Yiyun Li.

The formal induction will take place during the Academy’s annual Ceremonial on May 24, 2023. You can learn more and see the other newly elected members here.

Congratulations to Mark Baczoni, whose translation of János Székely’s Temptation (NYRB Classics) from the Hungarian won the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages’ 2022 award for Best Literary/Scholarly Translation into English. The award citation reads:

Mark Baczoni has given English-language readers a great gift in translating János Székely’s rollicking lost classic Temptation (Kísértés) into English for 21st century readers. Baczoni has produced a marvelously readable rendering of of Székely’s sparkling, sardonic prose; in his hands the narrative races along, offering us a delightfully exhilarating reading experience. Throughout the novel’s nearly 700 pages, Baczoni ably switches from drama to comedy and back, via poems, songs, and a great deal of lively dialogue, all interspersed with social and political commentary: a most enjoyable and rewarding read, and an admirable feat of translation.

Read more about the 2022 AATSEEL Book Prizes here.