NYRB Classics Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/nyrb-classics/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:19:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png NYRB Classics Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/nyrb-classics/ 32 32 Dirty Essays, Clean Essays https://www.publicbooks.org/dirty-essays-clean-essays/ Fri, 08 Jan 2021 16:00:19 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=40463 Recently translated essay collections underscore how sanitized ethical language has become in the last 60 to 70 years.

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]]> Public Picks 2020 https://www.publicbooks.org/public-picks-2020/ Fri, 22 May 2020 15:00:10 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=36167 Each year around this time we send our readers into summer with a thoughtfully curated list of the titles appearing over the past 12 months that dazzled, moved, and challenged us most.

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]]> How to Read Short Stories Like an Underdog https://www.publicbooks.org/how-to-read-short-stories-like-an-underdog/ Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:00:12 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=35382 Departing from a fixed form, some Latin American writers employed the short story as a laboratory of writing.

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]]> Translation and Other Children: Liberaki’s “Three Summers” https://www.publicbooks.org/translation-and-other-children-liberakis-three-summers/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:00:38 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=31096 While metaphors linking translation to human reproduction abound, Karen ...

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]]> B-Sides: J. R. Ackerley’s “We Think the World of You” https://www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-j-r-ackerleys-we-think-the-world-of-you/ Wed, 29 May 2019 16:00:11 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=28512 J. R. Ackerley’s We Think the World of You (1960) isn’t a novel I’d ever say I ...

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]]> Facts We Accept and Facts We Don’t https://www.publicbooks.org/facts-we-accept-and-facts-we-dont/ Thu, 18 Oct 2018 13:45:07 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=24156 Several years ago, a student of mine accused me of bullying her. She looked me in the eye and calmly listed all the things I’d done: singling her out, dismissing ...

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]]> Legacies of Italian Marxism https://www.publicbooks.org/legacies-of-italian-marxism/ Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:00:30 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=19308 “A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism.” What was left of this seemingly ominous prospect a century after the publication of Karl Marx and ...

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]]> B-Sides: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s “Lolly Willowes” https://www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-sylvia-townsend-warners-lolly-willowes/ Fri, 02 Mar 2018 16:00:19 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=19028 The year 1936 was a watershed for Bloomsbury fellow traveler Sylvia ...

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