{{short description|American publishing house}} {{Use American English|date=January 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox publisher | image = [[File:New York Review Books logo.png|250px]] | parent = ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'' | status = | founded = 1999 | founder = Edwin Frank | successor = | country = United States | headquarters = New York City | distribution = [[Penguin Random House]] Publisher Services | keypeople = | publications = [[Book]]s | topics = | genre = | imprints = | revenue = | numemployees = | nasdaq = | url = {{URL|http://nyrb.com}} }}
'''New York Review Books''' ('''NYRB''') is the publishing division of ''[[The New York Review of Books]]''. Its [[Imprint (trade name)|imprints]] are New York Review Books Classics, New York Review Books Collections, [[The New York Review Children's Collection]], New York Review Comics, New York Review Books Poets, and NYRB Lit.
==Description== The division was started in the fall of 1999.<ref name="manapat">[https://www.metro.us/entertainment/meet-edwin-frank-editor-of-new-york-review-books-classics/tmWlaD---ffnRGZW5EFFu6 Vince Manapat, "Meet Edwin Frank: Editor of New York Review Books Classics"], www.metro.us, January 31, 2012.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/soapbox/article/81373-20-years-of-nyrb-classics.html |title=20 Years of NYRB Classics |work=[[Publishers Weekly]] |author=Edwin Frank |date=October 4, 2019 |access-date=October 11, 2019}}</ref> It grew out of another enterprise called the '''Reader's Catalog'''<!-- Bold here and on other redirected terms per MOS:BOLDSYN & WP:OTHERNAMES --> (subtitle: "The 40,000 best books in print"), which sold books through a catalog.<ref name="manapat" /> Founder Edwin Frank and his managing editor <!--the article says it was Sara Kramer but Frank says that is incorrect, see http://nyrbclassics.tumblr.com/post/16819976903/meet-edwin-frank-our-editor)--> discovered that many of the books they wanted were out of print, so they decided to republish titles in fiction and non-fiction.<ref name="manapat" />
=== Series and collections === {{see also|Category:NYRB Classics}} '''NYRB Classics''' is a series of fiction and non-fiction works for all ages and from around the world. Since its first volume, a 1999 reissue of [[Richard Hughes (writer)|Richard Hughes]]'s 1929 novel ''[[A High Wind in Jamaica (novel)|A High Wind in Jamaica]]'', NYRB Classics has published hundreds of titles. Occasionally, it has published translations of works previously unavailable in English by writers including [[Euripides]], [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]], [[Honoré de Balzac|Balzac]] and [[Anton Chekhov|Chekhov]]. It also publishes fiction by more contemporary writers such as [[Vasily Grossman]], [[Mavis Gallant]], [[Upamanyu Chatterjee]], [[Georges Simenon]], [[Kenneth Fearing]], and [[J. R. Ackerley]]. Most of the books include an introduction by a writer or literary critic.<ref name="About">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nyrb.com/|title=New York Review Books|website=New York Review Books|language=en|access-date=February 5, 2019}}</ref> Edwin Frank is the editor of the Classics imprint.<ref name="manapat" /> It has been called "a marvellous literary imprint ... that has put hundreds of wonderful books back on our shelves."<ref>Cooke, Rachel. [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/07/robert-silvers-martin-scorsese-film-new-york-review-books "Robert Silvers interview: 'Someone told me Martin Scorsese might be interested in making a film about us. And he was'"], ''[[The Observer]]'', ''The Guardian'', June 7, 2014</ref>
'''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 (author)|Mary McCarthy]], [[Freeman Dyson]] and others, NYRB Collections present treatments of major intellectual, political, scientific, and artistic developments and debates.<ref name="About" /> The '''NYRB Lit''' series was established in July 2012 with the specific goal of publishing contemporary works of noteworthy fiction and non-fiction from around the world.<ref name="publishersweekly">Habash, Gabe. [http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/53202-new-york-review-books-does-e-only-with-nyrb-lit.html "New York Review Books Does E Only with NYRB Lit"], [[Publishers Weekly]], July 26, 2012. Retrieved on September 27, 2012.</ref> It is an [[e-book]]-only series that strives to publish titles considered too low in profitability for traditional publishers.<ref name="publishersweekly"/> The first-announced titles were ''The Water Theatre'' by [[Lindsay Clarke]] (September 2012); ''Beirut, I Love You'' by [[Zena El Khalil]] (October 2012); ''[[1948 (book)|1948]]'' by [[Yoram Kaniuk]] (November 2012); ''Ravan and Eddie'' by [[Kiran Nagarkar]] (December 2012), and ''On the Edge'' by [[Markus Werner]] (January 2013).<ref name="publishersweekly" />
[[The New York Review Children's Collection]] was founded in 2003 to reintroduce children's books that have fallen out of print, or simply out of mainstream attention. The series includes more than 30 titles, ranging from picture books to young adult novels.<ref name="About" /> '''NYRB Kids''' was founded in 2015; titles are "drawn from The New York Review Children's Collection and reissued as stylish paperback editions designed to be especially attractive to young readers".<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nyrb.com/pages/about|title=About|website=New York Review Books|language=en|access-date=February 5, 2019}}</ref>
Other collections and series include '''New York Review Comics''', '''NYRB Poets''', and Calligrams,<!-- Hatnote added at [[Calligram]] --> a "series of writings from and on China".<ref name=":0" />
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==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * {{Cite news |last1=Kurutz |first1=Steven |title=Thinking Persons Book Series Also Looks Great on Instagram |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 9, 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/style/new-york-review-books-classics.html |issn=0362-4331 }}
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==External links== * {{official site|http://www.nyrb.com}} * [http://www.librarything.com/publisher/832/NYRB-Classics/ NYRB Classics] at [[LibraryThing]] {{Authority control}} [[Category:Book publishing companies based in New York City]] [[Category:The New York Review of Books]] [[Category:1999 establishments in New York City]] [[Category:Publishing companies established in 1999]]