New York Review Books

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New York Review Books
Parent company The New York Review of Books
Founded 1999
Founder Edwin Frank
Country of origin United States
Headquarters location New York City
Distribution Random House Publisher Services
Publication types Books
Official website www.nybooks.com/books/

New York Review Books (NYRB) is the publishing house of The New York Review of Books. Its imprints are New York Review Books Classics, New York Review Books Collections, and The New York Review Children's Collection.

NYRB Classics is a list of fiction and non-fiction works for all ages and from around the world. Since its first volume, Richard Hughes's High Wind in Jamaica (1999), NYRB Classics has published hundreds of titles. Occasionally, it has published translations of works previously unavailable in English by writers including Euripides, Dante, Balzac and Chekhov. It also publishes fiction by more contemporary writers such as Vasily Grossman, Mavis Gallant, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Georges Simenon, Kenneth Fearing, J. R. Ackerley and Robert Burton. Most of the books include an introduction by a writer or literary critic.[1] Edwin Frank is the editor of the Classics imprint.[2]

NYRB Collections is a series of books that collect essays by frequent contributors to The New York Review of Books. With works by writers such as Larry McMurtry, Frank Rich, Mary McCarthy, Freeman Dyson and others, NYRB Collections present treatments of major intellectual, political, scientific, and artistic developments and debates.[1]

NYRB started in the fall of 1999.[2] It grew out of another enterprise called the ‘Reader’s Catalog' (subtitle: "The 40,000 best books in print"), which sold books through a catalog.[2] Founder Edwin Frank and his managing editor discovered many of the books they wanted to print were out of print, so they decided to bring back into print titles in fiction and non-fiction.[2]

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