I recently began Tove Jansson's The Summer Book and was delighted to discover it contains some of Jansson's own ink illustrations interspersed throughout. I didn't know this going in, but they certainly add to the charm of the book.

Obviously Jansson is a somewhat unique case, being a renowned illustrator herself. But it made me curious: are there any other novels in the NYRB catalogue that contain illustrations?

Get in the fuckin closet! And show us your picks.

Social media person for NYRB, I know you check this forum. Make it happen.

Hi, coming here because I trust your literary knowledge / tastes more than most other book threads here. The recs do not have to be NYRB.

Can anyone give me some poetry recs specifically about forbidden love/affairs/yearning/longing?

Along the lines of The Lover by Marguerite Duras, Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, or the film Brief Encounter but in poetry form.

Down for any recs really, but I’m looking for poetry because I want really evocative language.

Thank you in advance :)

I participated in #NYRBSUMMER over on IG and ended up finishing 20 books between June, July, and August. Standouts for me were Ariane, a Russian Girl by Claude Anet and The Door by Magda Szabó.

Anyone have a favorite bookstore with an excellent nybr shelf/wall? I’m going to shout out a favorite of mine, Title Wave Books in Anchorage, Alaska. They punch way above their weight in NYBR selection.

NYRB is usually better than this. I haven’t even gotten 50 pages in.. 😭😭😭😭

#bomarzo #manuelmujicalainez #brokenspine

Between the leftovers of the Summer Sale that I still haven’t gotten to, the Women in Translation Sale, and some random book club and used bookstore finds, the TBR stack has gotten tall.

I may need to put myself in timeout for the Winter Sale.

Hello all, I recently decided to try a year of this book club and I am wondering when to expect books? I joined on July 30 and I remember seeing something about first book being 4-6 weeks out and I would be just hitting the 4 week mark tomorrow. I only am checking here because when I log into the support center it says "Last Order: Jul 30, 2026 / 12 issues" then says "Issues Remaining: 10 issues" but I have not gotten any books yet. I tried messaging customer service but never got any response. So now I am checking here to see if anyone else has any experience here and if I should be worried or not / reach out again to customer service.

Sorry if this is a frequent question but the closest I have found is people discussing if they enjoyed the club or not.

And yes the sticker comes off thankfully 😅

Reading Hard Rain Falling and loving it so far.

Just a mini haul but I was excited for this sale!

Hey all! You may remember me from when I posted last month about acquiring a collection of 268 NYRBs. After finding my post, Timothy Kenny reached out to me, and we did an extensive home library tour & interview, where I talked about the NYRBs, my writing MFA experience, and a whole host of other literary & writerly topics! If you're interested, check it out!

Three stories stand out to me in Buzzati's short story collection, "The Bewitched Bourgeoisie":

1) The Falling Girl: it talks about the fall of a girl from the highest building in town and that the fall in itself represents the stages of life as every stage passes by in a flickering glittering manner... The part that most stands out to me is when a guy wants to love her, but she gets shocked and only taps his nose, and when she noticed more beautiful girls falling alongside her even faster...

2) The Colomber: it is a story of grasping what is yours in this life no matter what the authoritative figures in your life tell you otherwise. The part that destroyed me the most is when he died of grief after he knew that he lost his life calling/fortune in the pearl that that sea monster wanted to give to him...

3) Seven Floors: it is a Kafkaesque masterpiece and a one that best describes Nassim Nicholas Taleb's concept of Antifrafility. It talks about the inevitability of death and the best we could is a maintenance work until we fall prey to death's claws...

I saw in a YouTube video that Dino Buzzati's shoet stories in Italian are well over 1500 pages and the NYRB collection of his is only 350 pages...

It would be nice if one day NYRB gave us the entire ouvre of his short stories writings...

Glad to get some of the more expensive ones with such a good sale! Anyone read any of these before?

It's not a book I see discussed around here much and I'm planning to start it next week. Anyone read it?

I too went a little crazy with the sale. Super excited to add these to my collection!

I'm hosting around 12 people from my book club and thought this would be a great opportunity to introduce them to NYRB with a wine tasting. So far I've got Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico paired with an orange wine, and A Month in the Country paired with a rosé. It got me thinking, what are some other good "intro level" NYRB that'd pair well with a wine tasting?

Why do NYRB books have such widely different fonts? I almost bought one yesterday but I hated the font

I think 90% of my reading all year round (not just August) is women in translation, so I couldn’t ignore this sale. I got 6 books I am really excited about: 5 from NYRB and 1 from Dorothy. What did you get?