New York Review Books
“Baby Driver” is a book in the tradition of American road literature, but it moves at a distinctly different pace.
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If there ever was anyone to handle Hayim Nahman Bialik’s broad, impressive, and impressionistic craft with the acute passion, it is scholar and poet Peter Cole.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Beethoven never left Europe. But he could have. And the possibility that he might have visited Boston is the basis of Paul Griffiths’ touching, witty, and thought-provoking new novel.
Read MoreMark Lilla argues that the creed of the reactionary mind can be just as radical (and disturbing) as any revolutionary ideology.
Read MoreWhenever there is a choice to be made between meaning and melody, the translator tends to opt for the latter.
Read MoreFirst published in 1964, Jean Merrill’s classic children’s novel has just been reissued by New York Review Books to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Read MoreHow well Conversations with Beethoven works as fiction will depend on the engagement and imaginative powers of the reader.
Read MorePierre Reverdy’s poetry that is suspicious of the deceiving beauty of words, hence its pared-down, elemental, stylistic qualities.
Read MoreThrough meticulous research, interviews, and reminiscence, this compelling book illuminates a nook in the heart of darkness.
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Arts Remembrance: In Memoriam — Tom Stoppard