New York Review of Books
New York Review of Books Closes on Lease at 435 Hudson
The New York Review of Books is officially moving out of 1755 Broadway, joining in the stream of media firms to Hudson Square. The 45-year-old biweekly has signed a lease for 15,049 square feet at Trinity Real Estate’s 435 Hudson Street, at the northern reaches of the district.
The Review has been bumped out of its current space as fellow tenant Universal Music had expansion options built into its contract.
Our colleague Leon Neyfakh reported the pending move in December. read more »
What's New at The New York Review of Books?
Last week, The New York Review of Books, the biweekly chronicle of American intellectual life that will turn 45 next year, lost one of its founding editors when Elizabeth Hardwick passed away at the age of 91. It was a deeply sad moment for The Review, which had lost another beloved editor, Barbara Epstein, just a year and a half ago. read more »
Last of a Generation: Elizabeth Hardwick, Co-Founder of New York Review of Books, Dies at 91
Elizabeth Hardwick, the author and critic who fulfilled her dream of becoming a "New York intellectual," died in her sleep Sunday night at Roosevelt Hospital, according to Catherine Tice, associate publisher of the New York Review of Books, which Hardwick helped found in 1963. She had been hospitalized with a minor infection. She was 91 years old.
Russians Still Brooding Over Translations
As the Observer's Leon Neyfakh wrote this summer, the new (and old) translations of War and Peace are causing a raucous among the Russian literary elite. But the New York Review of Books' Orlando Figes writes in his review of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's new version of Tolstoy's classic that hating on translators is nothing new.
No one did more to introduce the English-speaking world to Russian literature than Constance Garnett (1862– 1946), who translated into graceful late-Victorian prose seventy major Russian works, including seventeen volumes of Turgenev, thirteen volumes of Dostoevsky, six of Gogol, four of Tolstoy, six of Herzen, seventeen of Chekhov, and books by Goncharov and Ostrovsky.
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Berman and Buruma Face Off in The New York Review of Books (UPDATE)
The November 8th issue of The New York Review of Books is online, and among other things, it features a sharply worded exchange between Paul Berman and Ian Buruma. The back-and-forth is only the latest installment in an ongiong feud between the two thinkers, which The Observer reported on earlier this month.
Mr. Berman, a self-described liberal who believes the intellectual left has abandoned its core principles, kicked off this round by submitting a letter to NYRB editor Bob Silvers in response to a review Mr. Buruma wrote in September of Norman Podhoretz's World War IV. read more »
