Jean Echenoz’s Command Performance is a noir-tinged, absurdist romp -- full of wit, detours, and dead ends. But does its playful subversion delight or exhaust? I found myself teetering on the edge of both. Read my review here.
Diana Athill: Don't Look at Me Like That
The most recent book for #NYRBWomen24 was Dorothy B. Hughes's 1963 crime novel, The Expendable Man
One of my favorite reading projects is Kim McNeil's NYRB Women project. The latest book we read was Eileen Chang's collection of short stories Love in a Fallen City.
This week NYRB Classics is publishing Antonio Di Benedetto's 1964 novel, The Silentiary, translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen. This is a fantastic follow-up to Di Benedetto's masterpiece, Zama.
What a treat! I adored Elizabeth von Arnim's The Enchanted April, which I read as part of my 2021 NYRB Classics List of Betterment.
Last month NYRB Classics released Natalia Ginzburg's novellas Family and Borghesia in one lovely edition. It's my year of reading Ginzburg!
Robert Walser's Little Snow Landscape, recently published by NYRB Classics, is the perfect book to start as we get into spring. It will also be perfect for summer, fall, and, believe it or not, winter. I recommend it in perpetuity.
Last year NYRB Classics released Natalia Ginzburg's novellas Valentino and Sagittarius in one lovely edition. I loved them!
As part of my quest to read ten books from the NYRB Classics backlist, I have finished the shocking -- and great -- 1959 book by Barbara Comyns, The Vet's Daughter.
