The upcoming collection of Rea Irvin's The Smythes is edited by Dash Shaw and R. Kikuo Johnson, with an afterword by Caitlin McGurk.
Shaw and Johnson will discuss Irvin, The Smythes, and the project at the NY Comics and Picture-Book Symposium on 12/1 on Zoom.
Shaw and Johnson will discuss Irvin, The Smythes, and the project at the NY Comics and Picture-Book Symposium on 12/1 on Zoom.
R. Kikuo Johnson & Dash Shaw, Monday, Dec. 1, 2025 at 7pm EST.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The upcoming collection of Rea Irvin's The Smythes is edited by Dash Shaw and R. Kikuo Johnson, with an afterword by Caitlin McGurk.
Shaw and Johnson will discuss Irvin, The Smythes, and the project at the NY Comics and Picture-Book Symposium on 12/1 on Zoom.
Shaw and Johnson will discuss Irvin, The Smythes, and the project at the NY Comics and Picture-Book Symposium on 12/1 on Zoom.
Rea Irvin is best known as the 1st art director at the @newyorker.com and creator of their mascot, Eustace Tilley. Irvin also drew a Depression-era strip called The Smythes. John and Margie often disagree on how to live, but Irvin turns domestic debate into art & laughs.
Book out on 12/9!
Book out on 12/9!
A Romp Through Rea Irvin’s Forgotten Sunday Funnies
Revisiting a comic strip by The New Yorker’s first art editor.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Rea Irvin is best known as the 1st art director at the @newyorker.com and creator of their mascot, Eustace Tilley. Irvin also drew a Depression-era strip called The Smythes. John and Margie often disagree on how to live, but Irvin turns domestic debate into art & laughs.
Book out on 12/9!
Book out on 12/9!
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David Daniel on Jan Kerouac's "Baby Driver" (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social): this artfully written, semi-autobiographical novel fits into the tradition of American road literature, but it moves at a distinctly different pace.
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Book Review: Jan Kerouac's "Baby Driver" - Storming Down the Road - The Arts Fuse
"Baby Driver" is a book in the tradition of American road literature, but it moves at a distinctly different pace.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
David Daniel on Jan Kerouac's "Baby Driver" (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social): this artfully written, semi-autobiographical novel fits into the tradition of American road literature, but it moves at a distinctly different pace.
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It's "Lives of the Saints." New edition coming out April 6 along with a new book by Nancy Lemann, The Oyster Diaries.
“I want to believe that there is always a trail, however faint, leading readers back to a book that, like a hiker lost in the wilderness, is on the brink of perishing.”
Geoff Dyer introduces the new edition of The Lives of Saints from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social.
Geoff Dyer introduces the new edition of The Lives of Saints from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social.
Holy Unimportant, by Geoff Dyer
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November 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
It's "Lives of the Saints." New edition coming out April 6 along with a new book by Nancy Lemann, The Oyster Diaries.
"The Complete C Comics documents an instance when those barriers began dissolving, a bellwether moment when poets who weren’t supposed to versify on cartoons—and artists who weren’t expected to draw inspiration from Jughead, but Masaccio—did just that."
Albert Mobilio on Joe Brainard's C Comics
Albert Mobilio on Joe Brainard's C Comics
The Complete C Comics
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November 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
"The Complete C Comics documents an instance when those barriers began dissolving, a bellwether moment when poets who weren’t supposed to versify on cartoons—and artists who weren’t expected to draw inspiration from Jughead, but Masaccio—did just that."
Albert Mobilio on Joe Brainard's C Comics
Albert Mobilio on Joe Brainard's C Comics
"Telling a story about the destruction of Palestine and the dispossession of its people, a story that is ongoing to this day, increasing in force and brutality with the years, The Lord is also an act of the literary resurrection of an entire nation."
Selma Dabbagh's on Soraya Antonius's The Lord
Selma Dabbagh's on Soraya Antonius's The Lord
Soraya Antonius’s Portrait of a Lost Palestine by Selma Dabbagh
November 14, 2025 – “With her pen, Antonius rebuilds villages and cities, replants crops, observes the weather, curates national festivals, and depicts both Palestinian and British high society.”
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November 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"Telling a story about the destruction of Palestine and the dispossession of its people, a story that is ongoing to this day, increasing in force and brutality with the years, The Lord is also an act of the literary resurrection of an entire nation."
Selma Dabbagh's on Soraya Antonius's The Lord
Selma Dabbagh's on Soraya Antonius's The Lord
Mitchell Abidor will discuss his biography of Victor Serge, Unruly Revolutionary, with Sophie Pinkham on Zoom on Sunday, November 23rd at noon EST. Should be a great talk. Put on by @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Uncomfortable Truth About Victor Serge: A Conversation with Mitchell Abidor and Sophie Pinkham. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email...
Join Jewish Currents on Sunday, November 23rd at 12 pm ET for a virtual conversation with contributing writer Mitchell Abidor and Cornell University professor Sophie Pinkham about Abidor’s new book, V...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Mitchell Abidor will discuss his biography of Victor Serge, Unruly Revolutionary, with Sophie Pinkham on Zoom on Sunday, November 23rd at noon EST. Should be a great talk. Put on by @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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Tonight at 6:30pm @goetheinstitut.bsky.social NYC, co-sponsored by @deutscheshausnyu.bsky.social, I'll be in conversation with translator Sophie Duvernoy about her magnificent rendering of Gabriele Tergit's sprawling novel EFFINGERS, out from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social.
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Gabriele Tergit's "Effingers:" An Evening with Sophie Duvernoy and Noah Isenberg
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November 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Tonight at 6:30pm @goetheinstitut.bsky.social NYC, co-sponsored by @deutscheshausnyu.bsky.social, I'll be in conversation with translator Sophie Duvernoy about her magnificent rendering of Gabriele Tergit's sprawling novel EFFINGERS, out from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social.
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Already looking for Christmas presents? @thestrategist.com has done its Unusually Special Gifts for Under $50 and selected Rea Irvin's The Smythes!
Rea Irvin was the New Yorker's first art director. He created the iconic Eustace Tilley cover portrait. Meet the Smythes on 12/9 (publication day).
Rea Irvin was the New Yorker's first art director. He created the iconic Eustace Tilley cover portrait. Meet the Smythes on 12/9 (publication day).
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Already looking for Christmas presents? @thestrategist.com has done its Unusually Special Gifts for Under $50 and selected Rea Irvin's The Smythes!
Rea Irvin was the New Yorker's first art director. He created the iconic Eustace Tilley cover portrait. Meet the Smythes on 12/9 (publication day).
Rea Irvin was the New Yorker's first art director. He created the iconic Eustace Tilley cover portrait. Meet the Smythes on 12/9 (publication day).
Launch event for Sophie Duvernoy's translation of Gabriele Tergit's Effingers is TONIGHT 6:30pm at Goethe Institut in NYC (30 Irving Pl.). Duvernoy will be in conversation with Noah Isenberg. Effingers was long out of print in German but is now recognized as one of the great Weimar-era novels.
Reading & Conversation: Gabriele Tergit's Effingers - Goethe-Institut USA
Tue, 11/18/2025 – Translator Sophie Duvernoy in conversation with Noah Isenberg
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November 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Launch event for Sophie Duvernoy's translation of Gabriele Tergit's Effingers is TONIGHT 6:30pm at Goethe Institut in NYC (30 Irving Pl.). Duvernoy will be in conversation with Noah Isenberg. Effingers was long out of print in German but is now recognized as one of the great Weimar-era novels.
"....dizzying infatuation then a mystifying fizzle—accompanied by stalking campaigns that combined giddy self-indulgence and exquisite self-torture."
Evangeline Riddiford Graham in explains how Barbara Pym's real love life shaped the pathos of her fiction.
For more—check out The Sweet Dove Died.
Evangeline Riddiford Graham in explains how Barbara Pym's real love life shaped the pathos of her fiction.
For more—check out The Sweet Dove Died.
On Barbara Pym, Author… and Stalker?
Barbara Pym, a novelist sometimes described as the twentieth-century Jane Austen, was a stalker. Her diaries describe her methods of “finding out” her objects of interest in vivid detail: looking t…
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November 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"....dizzying infatuation then a mystifying fizzle—accompanied by stalking campaigns that combined giddy self-indulgence and exquisite self-torture."
Evangeline Riddiford Graham in explains how Barbara Pym's real love life shaped the pathos of her fiction.
For more—check out The Sweet Dove Died.
Evangeline Riddiford Graham in explains how Barbara Pym's real love life shaped the pathos of her fiction.
For more—check out The Sweet Dove Died.
Gabriele Tergit's Effingers received a starred review in Kirkus!
Tomorrow (Tuesday, 11/18) translator Sophie Duvernoy tells the story of this 1951 "masterwork of modern German literature" at the Goethe Institut (30 Irving Place., NYC).
Tomorrow (Tuesday, 11/18) translator Sophie Duvernoy tells the story of this 1951 "masterwork of modern German literature" at the Goethe Institut (30 Irving Place., NYC).
Reading & Conversation: Gabriele Tergit's Effingers - Goethe-Institut USA
Tue, 11/18/2025 – Translator Sophie Duvernoy in conversation with Noah Isenberg
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November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Gabriele Tergit's Effingers received a starred review in Kirkus!
Tomorrow (Tuesday, 11/18) translator Sophie Duvernoy tells the story of this 1951 "masterwork of modern German literature" at the Goethe Institut (30 Irving Place., NYC).
Tomorrow (Tuesday, 11/18) translator Sophie Duvernoy tells the story of this 1951 "masterwork of modern German literature" at the Goethe Institut (30 Irving Place., NYC).
Sitewide sale this weekend. Buy 2 books and save 20%, 3 for 30%, or 4 or more and get 40% off. $75 for free shipping within the US.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Sitewide sale this weekend. Buy 2 books and save 20%, 3 for 30%, or 4 or more and get 40% off. $75 for free shipping within the US.
www.nyrb.com
www.nyrb.com
"It's hard to imagine that any future editor will want to do a great deal more than to thank him for his labours."
Edward Mendelson gets some credit for his work on our edition of Mrs. Dalloway. Also, a fascinating read by David Trotter on Virginia Woolf & Mrs. D at @lrb.co.uk
Edward Mendelson gets some credit for his work on our edition of Mrs. Dalloway. Also, a fascinating read by David Trotter on Virginia Woolf & Mrs. D at @lrb.co.uk
David Trotter · Unconditional Looking: Mrs Dalloway’s Demons
Virginia Woolf admired Jane Austen above all for her ability to grasp the exceptional moment – ‘in which all the...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"It's hard to imagine that any future editor will want to do a great deal more than to thank him for his labours."
Edward Mendelson gets some credit for his work on our edition of Mrs. Dalloway. Also, a fascinating read by David Trotter on Virginia Woolf & Mrs. D at @lrb.co.uk
Edward Mendelson gets some credit for his work on our edition of Mrs. Dalloway. Also, a fascinating read by David Trotter on Virginia Woolf & Mrs. D at @lrb.co.uk
We're very pleased to have TWO translations on the American Assoc of Teachers of Slavic & East European Languages (AATSEEL) shortlist.
Max Lawton for Red Pyramid, the short stories of Vladimir Sorokin.
Robert & Elizabeth Chandler for Chevengur by Andrey Platonov
Max Lawton for Red Pyramid, the short stories of Vladimir Sorokin.
Robert & Elizabeth Chandler for Chevengur by Andrey Platonov
Prizes
AATSEEL Awards for Teaching, Service, and Scholarship (deadline November 15, 2025) The AATSEEL Publications Committee is responsible for overseeing the appointment of editors for the AATSEEL Newslette...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We're very pleased to have TWO translations on the American Assoc of Teachers of Slavic & East European Languages (AATSEEL) shortlist.
Max Lawton for Red Pyramid, the short stories of Vladimir Sorokin.
Robert & Elizabeth Chandler for Chevengur by Andrey Platonov
Max Lawton for Red Pyramid, the short stories of Vladimir Sorokin.
Robert & Elizabeth Chandler for Chevengur by Andrey Platonov
Our new edition of Jan Kerouac's Baby Driver came out yesterday, with an introduction by Amanda Fortini. Fortini will be discussing Kerouac and the book (which is excellent, btw) with Meghan Daum tonight at 5pm on Zoom.
Amanda Fortini and Meghan Daum on Jan Kerouac’s Baby Driver
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November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Our new edition of Jan Kerouac's Baby Driver came out yesterday, with an introduction by Amanda Fortini. Fortini will be discussing Kerouac and the book (which is excellent, btw) with Meghan Daum tonight at 5pm on Zoom.
Miu Miu's literary club to be held in Shanghai will read Eileen Chang. This is a good selection.
Miu Miu Brings Literary Club to Shanghai
The Miu Miu Literary Club event is the third edition of the literature-centric franchise and will take place on Nov. 21, with a livestream on the brand’s Tencent channels.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Miu Miu's literary club to be held in Shanghai will read Eileen Chang. This is a good selection.
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Today, November 11, @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social is officially publishing its translation of "Effingers" by Gabriele Tergit.
This multi-generation saga of a Jewish family in Berlin is a masterpiece, and I highly recommend it.
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This multi-generation saga of a Jewish family in Berlin is a masterpiece, and I highly recommend it.
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Effingers
Gabriele Tergit’s Effingers is a novel, at once epic and intimate, about the lives and fates of three generations of a German Jewish family. Beginning in 1878 and ending in 1948, we follow the Effinge...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Today, November 11, @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social is officially publishing its translation of "Effingers" by Gabriele Tergit.
This multi-generation saga of a Jewish family in Berlin is a masterpiece, and I highly recommend it.
www.nyrb.com/products/eff...
1/5
This multi-generation saga of a Jewish family in Berlin is a masterpiece, and I highly recommend it.
www.nyrb.com/products/eff...
1/5
Tonight 7pm—Steven Zipperstein and Peter Cole talking about Philip Roth and Hayim Nahman Bialik tonight at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
In person and on Zoom
In person and on Zoom
Voices of Jewish Literary Giants: Hayim Nahman Bialik and Philip Roth | YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Steven J. Zipperstein, author of Philip Roth: Stung by Life, and Peter Cole, translator of Hayim Nahman Bialik’s On the Slaughter, explore their newly published books.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Tonight 7pm—Steven Zipperstein and Peter Cole talking about Philip Roth and Hayim Nahman Bialik tonight at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
In person and on Zoom
In person and on Zoom
Chen Jiang Hong's Dragon Flower, translated from the French by Alyson Waters, has been named to the NYT/NYPL's "Best Illustrated Children's Books" list for 2025.
We are buzzing. It's a beautiful book and a beautiful tale.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
We are buzzing. It's a beautiful book and a beautiful tale.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Chen Jiang Hong's Dragon Flower, translated from the French by Alyson Waters, has been named to the NYT/NYPL's "Best Illustrated Children's Books" list for 2025.
We are buzzing. It's a beautiful book and a beautiful tale.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
We are buzzing. It's a beautiful book and a beautiful tale.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
Ira Sachs's Peter Hujar's Day, starring Ben Whishaw as Hujar and Rebecca Hall as Linda Rosenkrantz, is out in cinemas today. Congrats to all involved! and to Rosenkrantz, the author of PHD and also Talk, one of our favorites.
November 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Ira Sachs's Peter Hujar's Day, starring Ben Whishaw as Hujar and Rebecca Hall as Linda Rosenkrantz, is out in cinemas today. Congrats to all involved! and to Rosenkrantz, the author of PHD and also Talk, one of our favorites.
"What draws readers to Guyotat and the other writers of the transgressive tradition is that they are candid about violence. Violence may not be the totality of life, but it is closer to the core of it than spurious humanisms would have us believe."
Ryan Ruby on Pierre Guyotat in @thebaffler.com
Ryan Ruby on Pierre Guyotat in @thebaffler.com
Violence and the Sacred | Ryan Ruby
Violence may not be the totality of life, but it is closer to the core than humanists would have us believe.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"What draws readers to Guyotat and the other writers of the transgressive tradition is that they are candid about violence. Violence may not be the totality of life, but it is closer to the core of it than spurious humanisms would have us believe."
Ryan Ruby on Pierre Guyotat in @thebaffler.com
Ryan Ruby on Pierre Guyotat in @thebaffler.com
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Nancy Lemann fans! We have a cover for our THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU reissue! @hubcitypress.bsky.social is so pleased to be working with our pals at @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social (who are publishing Nancy's new novel, as well as a reprint) for a big combined release day on April 7!
Email me to get an ARC!
Email me to get an ARC!
November 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Nancy Lemann fans! We have a cover for our THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU reissue! @hubcitypress.bsky.social is so pleased to be working with our pals at @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social (who are publishing Nancy's new novel, as well as a reprint) for a big combined release day on April 7!
Email me to get an ARC!
Email me to get an ARC!
To celebrate the new edition of "Jack the Modernist," Robert Glück and Kay Gabriel will discuss this classic of postmodern fiction TONIGHT (7pm) at Artists Space (11 Cortland Alley, NYC).
Robert Glück Jack the Modernist
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November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
To celebrate the new edition of "Jack the Modernist," Robert Glück and Kay Gabriel will discuss this classic of postmodern fiction TONIGHT (7pm) at Artists Space (11 Cortland Alley, NYC).
Today. Come after you vote, NYC, or before, you'll have time.
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Also streaming on Zoom: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Pierre Guyotat's Idiocy has been translated into English for the first time.
On Tuesday (6pm) at La Maison Française NYU (16 Washington Mews NYC) a distinguished panel will discuss the work of one of the most radical and uncompromising writers of the 20th-century.
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On Tuesday (6pm) at La Maison Française NYU (16 Washington Mews NYC) a distinguished panel will discuss the work of one of the most radical and uncompromising writers of the 20th-century.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Today. Come after you vote, NYC, or before, you'll have time.
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Also streaming on Zoom: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...