From #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his ...
An unforgettable memoir of fatherhood, grief, and the life-saving power of love and art in the wake of unimaginable loss. “This is a story that nobody should ever have to tell, yet Matthew Schnippe...
Join us on July 22 at 7 PM at McNally Jackson Seaport for an evening celebrating the launch of the new Sensorium Ex book and audiobook by Brenda Shaughnessy, as well as the album release, duri...
A gripping tale of murder and pursuit set against the shifting Sierra Nevada during the Gold Rush, where ambition, violence, and destiny collide.
Minor Works with Mandylion Press Book Club is for readers who've covered the classics and want to go deeper into the nineteenth-century novel. We read forgotten treasures—including Mandylion...
From a New York Times media correspondent, a dishy history of the Condé Nast magazine empire, home of Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and more, focusing on its glitzy heyday from the 1980s thr...
From the author of the bestselling phenomenon Dietland comes a razor-sharp, subversive thriller about motherhood, obsession, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive. Violet “West” Shelley ...
From Proust to Edith Wharton to Eve Babitz, literature is full of writers who capture character, time, and ideas through clothing. In this book club, a limited extension of the Fashion Fiction read...
Are you intimidated by the great (and by great, we mean looooooong) novels of Dostoevsky or Tolstoy, Ulitskaya and Tokarczuk? Novels over 500 pages may not be a crime to read, but they can, at time...
The Literary Black Book Club will meet every month to discuss mostly contemporary fiction written by Black authors. We'll also share a light snack and hopefully some laughs.
Join the New Directions crew on an odyssey, no caper, called: THE LIFE OF THE MIND (to borrow a beloved expression by Helen DeWitt). We'll read staff favorites and New Directions staples with an em...
"The reader should belong to a book club," said Vladimir Nabokov, one of the 20th century's most respected writers. Within his lifetime, Nabokov penned nearly two dozen novels, in addition to numer...
Have you ever hungered for something more? Or maybe you’ve been told you want too much: too much power, money, food, sex. Maybe you’ve been told you are too much— too fat, thin, hungry, loud,...
Are you too hardcore for the current state of American letters? The tragic truth is that most new books seem afraid to shock, experiment, offend, get weird. Is there still a place in this world for...
Kitāb (کتاب) : an Arabic word meaning book. Join Maria's Kitāb club -- a space for Arab texts -- fiction and nonfiction -- to be savored, and dissected.
Join the discussions of the misfits who have shaped the world of music, film, and pop culture. From the pure chaos of life on the road to the everlasting legacies that they leave, both memoirs and ...
From Proust to Edith Wharton to Eve Babitz, literature is full of writers who capture character, time, and ideas through clothing. In this book club, a limited extension of the Fashion Fiction read...
Minor Works with Mandylion Press Book Club is for readers who've covered the classics and want to go deeper into the nineteenth-century novel. We read forgotten treasures—including Mandylion...
Join the New Directions crew on an odyssey, no caper, called: THE LIFE OF THE MIND (to borrow a beloved expression by Helen DeWitt). We'll read staff favorites and New Directions staples with an em...
Writing is an “apprenticeship to what can never fully be mastered”, says the Pulitzer-winning poet Carl Phillips. Join us as we delve into the mysteries of the art of storytelling.
Have you ever hungered for something more? Or maybe you’ve been told you want too much: too much power, money, food, sex. Maybe you’ve been told you are too much— too fat, thin, hungry, loud,...
A charismatic doctor claimed to have rediscovered the ancestral roots of “toad medicine,” becoming the face of a global psychedelic movement. But in his wake, he left a trail of destruction tha...
Since 1999, NYRB Classics has published an eclectic mix of hundreds of books, all of them linked by a sense of discovery and surprise.
We will discuss audience - was this a work intended to be read? To what extent is the author performing for an imagined future readership? Is that a wink at us buried in a book from decades ago?
This is a book club for those who seek to disrupt notions of domestic bliss - we want batshit plots, women who don't settle...
A story of first love across cities spanning the decade that transformed the internet In the halls of an elite East Coast high school, Arjun and Payal fall in love as the world begins to tilt towar...
Join us on July 22 at 7 PM at McNally Jackson Seaport for an evening celebrating the launch of the new Sensorium Ex book and audiobook by Brenda Shaughnessy, as well as the album release, duri...
A gripping tale of murder and pursuit set against the shifting Sierra Nevada during the Gold Rush, where ambition, violence, and destiny collide.
Minor Works with Mandylion Press Book Club is for readers who've covered the classics and want to go deeper into the nineteenth-century novel. We read forgotten treasures—including Mandylion...
From a New York Times media correspondent, a dishy history of the Condé Nast magazine empire, home of Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and more, focusing on its glitzy heyday from the 1980s thr...
From the author of the bestselling phenomenon Dietland comes a razor-sharp, subversive thriller about motherhood, obsession, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive. Violet “West” Shelley ...
From Proust to Edith Wharton to Eve Babitz, literature is full of writers who capture character, time, and ideas through clothing. In this book club, a limited extension of the Fashion Fiction read...
Are you intimidated by the great (and by great, we mean looooooong) novels of Dostoevsky or Tolstoy, Ulitskaya and Tokarczuk? Novels over 500 pages may not be a crime to read, but they can, at time...
The Literary Black Book Club will meet every month to discuss mostly contemporary fiction written by Black authors. We'll also share a light snack and hopefully some laughs.
Join the New Directions crew on an odyssey, no caper, called: THE LIFE OF THE MIND (to borrow a beloved expression by Helen DeWitt). We'll read staff favorites and New Directions staples with an em...
Join the New Directions crew on an odyssey, no caper, called: THE LIFE OF THE MIND (to borrow a beloved expression by Helen DeWitt). We'll read staff favorites and New Directions staples with an em...