New York Review Books Classics

The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays
Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization: a distinguished scholar of classi...
The Use of Man
The Use of Man starts with an unexpected discovery. World War II is ending. Sredoje Lazukić has...
The Death of Napoleon
As he bore a vague resemblance to the Emperor, the sailors on board the Hermann-Augustus Stoeff...
An Ermine in Czernopol
Set just after World War I, An Ermine in Czernopol centers on the tragicomic fate of Tildy, an...
The Snows of Yesteryear
Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian...
Berlin Stories
In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl,...
Selected Stories
How to place the mysterious Swiss writer Robert Walser, a humble genius who possessed one of th...
A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories
A Schoolboy’s Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser’s strange and wonderful...
Proud Beggars
Early in "Proud Beggars," a brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel. But t...
The Jokers
Who are the jokers? The jokers are the government, and the biggest joker of all is the gove...
Sunflower
Gyula Krúdy is a marvelous writer who haunted the taverns of Budapest and lived on its streets...
Basti
Basti is the great Pakistani novel, a beautifully written, brilliantly inventive reckoning with...
Skylark
It is 1900, give or take a few years. The Vajkays — call them Mother and Father — live in Sársz...
Fear
Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation. 1915: Jean Dartemont heads off to the...
Amsterdam Stories
No one has written more feelingly and more beautifully than Nescio about the madness and sadnes...
Warlock
Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western...