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01/06/2026

Three books by Amit Chaudhuri out today: a new selection of essays from 1999–2023, Incompleteness, and two novels, A New World and The Immortals. Pankaj Mishra wrote the introduction to the latter, NYRB Classics editorial director Edwin Frank the introduction to the former. In Frank’s essay, which you can read now on the website, he writes of the subtle craft and rich quality of awareness that Chaudhuri’s work so remarkable: “Scene is sentence; plot lies in the passage, routine and unpredictable, through and between paragraphs. The sentences are acts of attention, touching on the shifting interplay of the larger world…. In Chaudhuri’s books, people see the world around them and the world sees them back.”

12/22/2025

Check out our Spring 2026 Catalog; link in bio.

Cover photo is Pierre-Louis Pierson’s Scherzo di Follia, a portrait of the Contessa di Castiglione, who is the subject of Benedetta Craveri’s The Contessa (June).

12/16/2025

In Radical Universalism, Omri Boehm seeks to recover the force of humanist universalism—its self-evident truths, rights, and obligations—and return it to the political sphere. In recent years the specter of identity has dominated discussions on governance, culture, and community, Boehm argues, resulting in a reigning liberalism which defends individual freedoms but ignores fundamental duties. Through readings of Kant’s “What Is Enlightenment?,” the Declaration of the Independence, and the biblical story of the Binding of Issac (with appearances from John Brown, Martin Luther King Jr., and others), Boehm outlines a history of universalism grounded in authority higher than nations, beliefs that transcend rationality, and a textual tradition that points to a better future.

12/11/2025

Rea Irvin was the first art editor of The New Yorker and the creator of the magazine’s iconic mascot, the butterfly enthusiast Eustace Tilley. He was also the cartoonist behind The Smythes, a 1930s comic strip about a married couple, Margie and John Smythe, and their clumsy attempts to climb the rungs of the social ladder. Satiric but never scathing, humorous but rarely uproarious, these are some of the most plainly beautiful comics ever put to page, with Irvin’s distinct design sense on full display. Out this week, the new edition of The Smythes contains a selection of strips hand-picked by and (who also penned the introduction together) and an afterword by .

12/09/2025

Friday is Michel Tournier’s retelling of Robinson Crusoe, taking Defoe’s story of solitude and survival and lending it a more sensual, mythological flavor. Rather than Friday learning from Crusoe, in Tournier’s version it is Crusoe who learns from Friday. Crusoe still attempts to “civilize” the island, but observing Friday, he soon begins to doubt his own impulses. Eventually he wonders if his whole European way of thinking and feeling may be “only a dead weight that he must be willing to shed before embarking upon a new way of life.”

12/05/2025

Written over the course of four decades, François-René de Chateaubriand’s Memoirs from Beyond the Grave is among the greatest of all autobiographies. This third of four volumes finds Chateaubriand a man in middle age, his military career behind him, already one of France’s most celebrated writers, and now an ambassador and statesman under the Bourbons. Chateaubriand is once more carried along on the current of chaotic and transformative years in his native country, bearing witness to the revolution of July 1830, the inauguration of Louis-Philippe and the establishment of the July Monarchy, and finally the birth of the short-lived Second Republic.

But Chateaubriand’s memoirs are much more than history retold: they are a melancholic and digressive dispatch from a man in the evening of life trawling an immense archive of memories, regrets, lost passions, and old yearnings. Rendered in prose of unparalleled richness and beauty—prose which inspired a young Victor Hugo to declare “I will be Chateaubriand or nothing!”—the Memoirs are a literary testament like no other. To put it simply, readers will find here a soul laid bare.

12/03/2025

Soraya Antonius’s The Lord re-creates the extraordinary richness and vivacity of Palestinian life before the Nakba. It tells the story of Tareq, an itinerant magician performing in the hillside towns and villages who is rumored to have surprising powers and might be a leader in the resistance against the British colonial government, culminating in the Arab Revolt of 1936. His story is being unearthed in the early ’80s by a journalist reporting on the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. She interviews Miss Alice, Tareq’s British missionary school teacher, who still lives in Jaffa. A clear-eyed examination of a chapter of British colonial history that laid the groundwork for conflicts that continue to rack the Middle East, The Lord remains as timely and telling now as ever.

Soraya Antonius was born in Jerusalem, the daughter of George Antonious, author of The Arab Awakening, and Katy Nimr, a leading socialite. Soraya was a founding member of the Fifth of June Society and is also the author of the novel Where the Jinn Consult, which NYRB Classics will reissue in the future.

12/01/2025

Out from NYRB Classics this spring, Light While There is Light is poet Keith Waldrop’s “fictional memoir” of his upbringing in a deeply religious family in the American Midwest and South. A restless spiritual seeker, his mother moves the family from place to place, sect to sect—but this grasping for fulfillment leads only to fear, confusion, and eventually, madness. Though his story evokes Hawthorne, Poe, Faulkner, and O’Connor, Waldrop’s voice never veers into religious fervor or self-righteous scorn. He is always a sympathetic but utterly unsentimental observer, plain-spoken and beautifully clear. This new edition features an introduction by Ben Lerner.

11/12/2025

“My favorite J. Kerouac is Jan, hands down.” –Heidi Julavitz

Baby Driver is a heavily autobiographical novel by the other J. Kerouac’s only child, one that hops between memories of Jan’s adolescence on the Lower East Side (she and her mother lived around the corner from Allen Ginsberg) and her freewheeling early adulthood on the road between Mexico, San Francisco, Santa Fe, and beyond. She drops acid at 13, finds herself deep in the jungles of Peru, and meets her famous father only twice. (He never publicly acknowledged her existence.) She writes about her many misadventures with poetic detail and a winning sense of humor. Baby Driver is a major trip and it’s out now.

Amanda Fortini, who wrote the intro to the NYRB Classics edition of the book, and Meghan Daum will discuss Baby Driver over zoom at 5pm ET tonight. Link in bio for more information.

11/11/2025

Out today, Gabriele Tergit’s Effingers is a panoramic novel about the lives and fates of three generations of a German Jewish family, beginning in 1878 and ending in 1948. Though history is always occurring in the background, the novel plays out not in grand, solemn scenes but in short, propulsive chapters full of delicious dialogue, gossip, and incident. It’s a big book, but it moves at a glorious speed.

With Noah Isenberg, Sophie Duvernoy will discuss her deft translation of the novel at the Goethe-Institut in NYC (30 Irving Place) next Tuesday, November 18, at 6:30pm.

11/04/2025

Recent arrivals in the office, all in the NYRB Classics series:

- Friday by Michel Tournier (trans. Norman Denny)
- A New World and The Immortals by Amit Chaudhuri
- Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1815–1830 by François-René de Chateaubriand (trans. Alex Andriesse)
- Effingers by Gabriele Tergit (trans. Sophie Duvernoy)

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween from NYRB and Jan Kerouac. 🎃 You can read Amanda Fortini’s intro to Kerouac’s Baby Driver over . Link in bio.

Photo courtesy of the Estate of Jan Kerouac

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