New York Review Books Classics

The Adventures of Sindbad
“What you have loved remains yours.” Thus speaks the irresistible rogue Sindbad, ironic hero of...
Rock Crystal
Seemingly the simplest of stories — a passing anecdote of village life — Rock Crystal opens up...
A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising
This book is both a work of memory and a work about memory. Miron Bialoszewski (1922-83), the g...
Henri Duchemin and His Shadows
Emmanuel Bove was one of the most original writers to come out of twentieth-century France and...
On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry
On Being Blue is a book about everything blue — sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things...
Young Once
Young Once is a crucial book in the career of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano. It was his breakt...
In the Café of Lost Youth
In the Café of Lost Youth is vintage Patrick Modiano, an absorbing evocation of a particular Pa...
The Book of Blam
The Book of Blam, Aleksandar Tišma’s “extended kaddish. . [his] masterpiece” (Kirkus Reviews),...
Houses
Building can be seen as a master metaphor for modernity, which some great irresistible force, b...
Hill
Deep in Provence, a century ago, four stone houses perch on a hillside. Wildness presses in fro...