"a perfect fit for an over-circuited world."
@adamdalva.bsky.social on Tom McCarthy's new book, The Rhyl Poster, which is "not the kind of thriller you’d expect."

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"a perfect fit for an over-circuited world."
@adamdalva.bsky.social on Tom McCarthy's new book, The Rhyl Poster, which is "not the kind of thriller you’d expect."
Reading J. H. Prynne's The White Stones got Ryan Ruby out of a reading slump.
Brais Lamela and translator Jacob Rogers will be launching WHAT REMAINS at Books Are Magic this Friday night! If you can't make it in person, please join us for the livestream!
From the archive, my thoughts on BROTHER OF THE MORE FAMOUS JACK by Barbara Trapido, just reissued by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social.
A superb coming-of-age novel about love, heartache, disillusionment & growing up. It's moving, charming, funny & unsentimental!
Robert Glück's About Ed has been translated into French (À propos d'Ed). Glück will be at Les Mots à la Bouche bookstore in Paris (11th arr.) on Thursday, October 22. For those who live in Paris.
And then Rowe and Dimos will be in Cambridge MA at the Grolier on Wed (10/14), introduced by Giancarlo Huapaya
Starts at 7pm EST; streaming live on Zoom.
While we are all talking about poetry: William Rowe and Helen Dimos, translators of César Vallejo's Trilce (with helpful, needed, enlightening glosses) will be at @splitrockbks.bsky.social this Saturday at 6pm.
After an amazing event last night at Artists Space, Simon Critchley will be at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social this Friday to discuss Heidegger Thinking with Sean Kelly.
Tom McCarthy & Simon Critchley have new books they are launching tonight 7pm at Artists Space (11 Cortlandt Alley, NYC). McCarthy's new novel isThe Rhyl Poster and Critchley's book is Heidegger Thinking, about Being and Time.
Sad to hear that Linda Asher has died. Among other things, for NYRB she translated several Balzac stories included in The Human Comedy.
Coming up real soon (in 30 min)—online (Zoom) event with Barbara Trapido and Maggie O'Farrell on Trapido's novel, Brother of the More Famous Jack. Our new edition, with an intro by Mick Herron, is out today.
Dorothy PUB DAY only comes once a year. And it's here! 🎉 Happy pub day to BLUE SUNSET by Denise Rose Hansen and WHAT REMAINS by Brais Lamela (translated from the Galician by Jacob Rogers)! We're honored to be publishing these two beautiful and brilliant debut novels.
There's a play of Vincenzo Patronico's Perfection currently running at the Volksbühne theater. We would be very interested to hear how this was done. If you go, let us know.
Pssst, the sale on our two brand new 2026 books (at @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social ) last for three days only!
Amit Chaudhuri talking about his new book, Château Rouge, and selfhood at @newstatesman1913.bsky.social.
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NYC friends: Brais and Jacob will be doing a LAUNCH EVENT for WHAT REMAINS at Books Are Magic on Friday, October 9 at 7pm! It's so hard to get the word out for debut books, especially translations, but this book and writer and translator are all . . .
Our book club at McNally Jackson will be discussing Richard Hughes's A High Wind in Jamaica next Thursday at the City Point Brooklyn McJ store (445 Albee Sq). Beings at 7pm; upstairs in the history room. You still have time to read one of the first books in the series and one of the best loved.
Happy International Translation Day! To celebrate we'll recommend some of our recent translations— Iana Boukova's Traveling the Direction of the Shadow, trns Ekaterina Petrova Adolfo Bioy Casares's Morel's Invention, trns Margaret Jull Costa Anna Seghers's Blood Money, trns Lucy Jones
Turner Brooks has been designing homes in Vermont for forty years. They both follow the vernacular style and break the mold. Brooks's memoir, also his philosophy of architecture and space, Spatial Memories, comes out next month. This month he was profiled by @sevendaysvt.bsky.social