I’ll Come Back Once You’re Dead (Henri Duchemin and His Shadows by Emmanual Bove, trans. Alyson Waters)
Emmanuel Bove’s brooding 1928 story collection is populated by vulnerable, desperate, lonely men. [Read More]
NYRB Classics
So Fearsome a Blue; or, From Grandmother’s House We Go (Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter, trans. Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne Moore)
In Adalbert Stifter's Rock Crystal, the forest, the mountains, the snow and, most importantly, the ice—the beautiful, terrible, infinite ice!—inspire a breathless, speechless wonder. [Read More]
Mamma, Can I Break My Piggy Bank? (Agostino by Alberto Moravia, trans. Michael F. Moore)
In Alberto Moravia's stunning, intimate classic, a boy struggles to emerge from childhood. [Read More]
Tell Me All the Dirty Words You Know (The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford)
Every great novel sets up expectations early on and then, at some point, subverts them. Jean Stafford's recently reissued novel is no exception. [Read More]
Winter Time Had Finally Got Them All (In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass)
NYRB Classics brings back one of the great works of American fiction, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass. [Read More]
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