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• Afghanistan reality check

  
  Majikthise — Authority: 579
  Sobering thoughts from Ahmed Rashid on the New York Review of Books blog: US hopes rest on the Afghan National Army (ANA), which today numberssome 90,000 soldiers. Yet after eight years of US intervention inAfghanistan, not a single brigade is self sufficient or combat-ready.The only area the Afghan army has under ...
  4 days ago

• Spinal columns

  
  JessicarulestheUniverse — Authority: 476
  Penguin books from Design SpongeNYRB Classics from my houseThis Season’s Fruitcake in Emotional Weather Report in the Star.
  4 days ago

• NYRB Challenge Book #12: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes. . .

  
  The Dewey Divas and the Dudes — Authority: 131
  I didnt know when I first picked up this book that a major section of the novel would take place during a rather disastrous Christmas gathering. Sometimes Im convinced theres a strange spirit guiding my choices during this challenge; my eyes will just happen to alight upon a title that proves particularly relevant. If ...
  5 days ago

• Iran’s Hidden Path to the Bomb

  
  This Side of the Pond — Authority: 123
  Writing for NYRBlog , nuclear weapons expert Jeremy Bernstein explains Iran’s efforts to produce nuclear material — something they’re already doing at an alarming rate. Bernstein’s Nuclear Weapons: What You Need to Know will be out in paperback next month. To western officials who have ...
  6 days ago

• Best Books of the Year Part 1 [Not About Covers]

  
  Caustic Cover Critic — Authority: 415
  Im going to continue to talk about covers and book design here, but over the month of December Im also going to do a series of extra posts about the books I most enjoyed this year. Theres no particular reason why anyone should care about these besides me, so feel free to skip them, but my hope is that some ...
  1 week ago

• NYRB Challenge Book #11: The Furies. . .

  
  The Dewey Divas and the Dudes — Authority: 131
  Not every NYRB Classic is decades or centuries old - they also rescue great contemporary literature that, for whatever reason, among the mountains of new books that are published every year, got buried in the landslide and subsequently went out of print. Such is the case with Janet Hobhouses The Furies , ...
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• NYRB Challenge Book #10: Lolly Willowes. . .

  
  The Dewey Divas and the Dudes — Authority: 131
  Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner is a very unusual, delightful and completely original novel, and in many ways was the perfect follow-up read to In Parenthesis . Originally published in 1926, the novel deals with one of the main after effects of the First World War - the superfluous spinster. Laura ...
  2 weeks ago

• Modern Classics

  
  Paper Cuts — Authority: 616
  NYRB Classics celebrates its 10th anniversary, and 250th book, tonight at Greenlight Books in Fort Greene.
  3 weeks ago

• Were gonna read DeLillo like its your birthday.

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 737
  Nabokov, Meet 50 Cent: Zadie Smiths Changing My Mind . "Those who have been paying attention to Zadie Smith since her White Teeth debut likely already know about her affinities for E.M. Forster, Lil Wayne, George Eliot, Kafka, and Fawlty Towers. Shes one of probably three working writers capable of smuggling a riff ...
  3 weeks ago

• NYRB Challenge Book #9: In Parenthesis. . .

  
  The Dewey Divas and the Dudes — Authority: 131
  This book is one of the first NYRB Classics that I ever bought and yet it has been sitting unread on my shelves for years. Actually on one particular shelf - the top one among the many I have dedicated to books written by and about participants in the First World War. Its a crowded bookcase and this is one of the key ...
  3 weeks ago

• NYRB Challenge Book #8: Lamour dans deux langues. . .

  
  The Dewey Divas and the Dudes — Authority: 131
  Ive had a busy week on the road in Montreal and Ottawa and I needed another short read. But even if Id had all the time in the world, I still would have packed No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon , translated by Lydia Davis , as it really was the perfect accompaniment for my trip. This entrancing little novella was ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Nazi at Harvard

  
  This Side of the Pond — Authority: 123
  In Anthony Grafton’s review of The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower for the NYRBlog , the indictment and complexities of US-German ties in the buildup to World War II. In 1934, the Harvard class of 1909 held its 25th reunion—then as now an occasion for members of the American elite to parade in public ...
  5 weeks ago

• NYRB Challenge Book #7: A Classic Graphic Novel. . .

  
  The Dewey Divas and the Dudes — Authority: 131
  Whew, its been a busy week with a lot of work reading, so Ive only had time for a quickie. But NYRB can thankfully oblige; they have plenty of short little gems and this month, theyve published their first graphic novel, (could any genre be more trendy right now?) which I read this morning on the bus to work. And ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Journal of Henry David Thoreau

  
  ThoughtCast — Authority: 92
  Henry David Thoreau is justly famous for his book Walden , which tells the story of the two years he spent living by the pond , in the Concord woods. But he also wrote a journal, which he started at age 20 in 1837, and kept up until 1861, shortly before he died. This diary of Thoreau’s daily thoughts and ...
  5 weeks ago

• John Williams: Stoner

  
  Asylum — Authority: 92
  The cover design of the NYRB Classics edition of John Williams’ novel Stoner might have been expressly chosen to emphasise that, even though the book was published in 1965, this is not a sort of literary Cheech and Chong.  It is a sober study of one man’s slow journey to finding out who he is, and it is quietly ...
  6 weeks ago

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