#nyrb

[redshift-13]

-Frances Wilson, “Descriptions of a Struggle,” reviewing The Diaries by Franz Kafka, trans. by Ross Benjamin, in NYRB, April 6, 2023.

#nyrb #frances wilson #the fraught task of self-creation #books #book reviews #franz kafka #david foster wallace

[oldshrewsburyian]

Morante's celebrated first novel, Lies and Sorcery, written during the war, when Morante, half-Jewish, was living in hiding, and published in 1948, is a sprawling 800-page novel in the grand tradition of Stendhal, Tolstoy, and Proust, spanning the lives of three generations of wildly eccentric women.

Sold, tbh.

#nyrb #adultbooklr #elsa morante #i feel as though my italian SHOULD be good enough to read literature untranslated #but alas #maybe i should batter my way through my italian copy of 3 musketeers again #anyway #lies and sorcery #queue

[loneberry]

Digging into the English-language poems of Amelia Rosselli. It’s dark and disturbed like her Italian-language poems, but in a totally defamiliarized and often archaic English.

“the terrible transport of love / (a hidden fibre of / hate)”

#literature #poetry #amelia rosselli #death #love #hate #nyrb

[unjustlyunread]

Yang Chu (c. 350 B.C.) wept at the cross-roads because whichever road he chose would lead to a new cross-roads and multiply the chances of having lost his way.

(poets and exponential sadness)

#poems of the late t'ang #nyrb #a. c. graham #tu fu #yang chu #weeping #100(1-((1/2)^n)) percent chance you've lost your way #exponential sadness #poetry #roots of stone #labyrinth #notes

[antimony]

Vasily Grossman, An Armenian Sketchbook

#vasily grossman #an armenian sketchbook #lit #nyrb

[liverpool-enjoyer]

max my lovely i must know who are you cheering for tonight is it the nyrb or messi 🎤🎤

k i shit you not i have been thinking abt this literally all day n the only conclusion ive come to is:

like leo is my favorite player of all time n ive loved him since i was a lil guy but the red bulls n i go even FURTHER back n i jus cant in good conscience switch up on em n- 😭😭 at least no matter who wins i'll be happy 😀 maybe i should jus hope for a draw,,,

#omgeeee thank you for thinking a me <3 #my luv💐 #ty for the ask <3 #leo messi #new york red bulls #ny red bulls #nyrb

[millythegoat]

Meanwhile in MLS

#new York red bulls vs san jose earthquakes #nyrb #mls

[lukevburns]

My translation of MASTERS OF THE NEFARIOUS is on shelves now!

You can check out an excerpt on McSweeney's to get a taste of what's in store, and also read a very kind review that calls it "wonderfully funny." I hope you'll order it from your book retailer of choice, and if you do, I hope you enjoy it!

#comics #comic books #funny #nyrb #pierre la police #translation #graphic novel

[jessethegoat]

What would you do if you're at the death and in dire need of a goal?

subbed in a Keeper??? My man Troy...🥲

the game does ended in penalty and they lose :(

#troy lesesne #carlos coronel #new york era #nyrb #US Open Cup

[daniecho]

A Hungry Little Boy by Edmund White

I looove when literary figures get psychoanalyzed, it's so funny. Armchair diagnosed with Loved Milfs Disease. No wonder! Marc Slonim published Three Loves of Dostoevsky in 1955, what's your excuse in 2012, Eddie?

#Honoré de Balzac #nyrb #like it's plausible it's just funny to see it explained this way #literature

[cmonstah]

Thinking about architect Victor Horta's Hotel Tassel in Brussels after reading this story by Martin Filler about Art Nouveau.

Photo from UNESCO's World Heritage entry on the building.

#architecture #art nouveau #brussels #victor horta #martin filler #nyrb #new york review of books #design

[jessegoatedboys]

Hey look! A pocket sized coach!

All! Let me introduce you to Troy Lesesne! The interim head coach for the New York Red Bulls. He's been great so far and it's great to see this team start to gather their momentum again!!!

He's me personified. He's small and his mentors are Jesse and Jim Curtin..can't believe I can find somebody as perfect as him ❤

#troy lesesne #new york red bulls #NYRB #MLS

[allthewordsinthenight]

I never let others get too close and simply paraded a fake me that resembled their image of me. Sweeping that other me into their arms, they led me in a dance within societal norms, along a trajectory based on a delusion. (Though I couldn't define what I was, I knew what I wasn't.) I was shown the limits, and being confined within a set of walls tormented me and drained me of life, for the real me spanned multitudes, stretching far beyond the bounds of normality encircling ninety percent of the human race.

Qiu Miaojin, Notes Of A Crocodile

#qiu miaojin #notes of a crocodile #taiwanese literature #queer literature #performing #confinement #supression #masking #queerness #identity #nyrb

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 037

The War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells / illustrated by Edward Gorey

New York Review of Books 2005

The first of many Edward Gorey books in my collection. I remember being surprised that Gorey had illustrated this book when I first saw this reissue. Martians seemed a little outside of his wheelhouse, but I knew this book would be coming home with me. A fantastic NYRB production.

#bookshelf #illustrated book #library #collection #personal library #personal collection #bookseller #books #book lover #bibliophile #war of the worlds #hg wells #edward gorey #nyrb #new york review of books #fiction

[gridbug]

Read this review of a new biography of Bronislava Nijinska, the sister of Vaslav Nijinsky, and this section near the opening has me hooting and hollering. How are you going to be a ballet dancer for any extended period of time without having powerful thighs, you cowards? People pick the weirdest stuff to be sexist about. Like look at this picture and her smile, those teeth. I’d kill to have teeth that nice. And these assholes are complaining?

Also the article has some great jabs at Balanchine, which I love. Hate that guy, weirdo, stole choreography from women.

#ballet #ballet russes #dance #choreography #art #bronislava nijinska #vaslav nijinsky #new york review of books #nyrb

[antimony]

They dealt in genre, discovering that tragedy lay in the quotidian depiction of anything (anything gorgeous); that comedy, conversely, swelled to bursting, in proud dimensions. All the rest, the reportage, was waste. — James McCourt, Mawrdew Czgowchwz

#mawrdew czgowchwz #james mccourt #nyrb #lit #this book is fun!