New York Review Books Classics

Morte D'Urban
Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction. The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterp...
The Stories of J.F. Powers
Hailed by Frank O'Connor as one of "the greatest living storytellers," J. F. Powers, who died i...
Wheat That Springeth Green
Wheat That Springeth Green, J. F. Powers's beautifully realized final work, is a comic foray in...
Agostino
Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful...
That Awful Mess on the via Merulana
In a large apartment house in central Rome, two crimes are committed within a matter of days: a...
The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories
A New York Review Books Original Mavis Gallant is renowned as one of the great short-story...
Paris Stories
Michael Ondaatje's new selection of Mavis Gallant's work gathers some of her stories set in Eur...
Varieties of Exile
Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine...
On the Abolition of All Political Parties
A brilliant woman who was a study in fiercely maintained contradictions, a star student who wen...
Dear Illusion: Selected Stories
When he published his first novel, Lucky Jim, in which his misbehaving hero wreaks havoc with t...
Fat City
Fat City is a vivid novel of allegiance and defeat, of the potent promise of the good life and...
Pitch Dark
“What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.” Pitch Dark is a book about love....
Speedboat
When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like nothing readers had encountered...
A High Wind in Jamaica
New edition of a classic adventure novel and one of the most startling, highly praised stories...
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
IN THIS SUITE of five short pieces — one of the unqualified literary masterpieces of the Americ...
Talk
Friendships are built on chatter, on gossip, on revelations — on talk. Over the course of the s...