Legitimate Violence, a film directed by Serge Leroy and written by Jean-Patrick Manchette, will be screening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with an introduction by Manchette's translator Donald Nicholson-Smith. Jean-Patrick Manchette was a genre-redefining French crime novelist, screenwriter, critic, and translator, whose books include Fatale, The Mad and the Bad, Ivory Pearl, and the forthcoming Skeletons in the Closet, among others.

The screening will take place in the Peter Jay Sharp Building at BAM at 7pm on November 1.

Translator Max Lawton will be reading as part of the Dunes Literary Series, hosted by the English Department at Indiana University Northwest. Max Lawton has translated eight books by Russian novelist and short fiction writer Vladimir Sorokin, including Telluria, Red Pyramid and Other Stories, and the forthcoming Blue Lard. 

The event is free and will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, October 4, at 7:30 PM EDT. Register before the event.

Join BookWoman for a live Zoom conversation between the critically acclaimed speculative fiction authors Lisa Tuttle and Kelly Link to celebrate the release of Lisa Tuttle's My Death, an eerie folk-horror novella in which a woman bent on rescuing a forgotten female author from obscurity winds up unearthing a perilous secret. Kirkus Reviews called this "richly evocative" story "a powerful and empoweringly weird read." Author Amy Gentry will moderate. Register before the event.

In this event to launch his new NYRB Poets collection Sweet Shop: New and Selected Poems, Amit Chaudhuri will read from his poems, introduce some of the photographs from the “bizarre art project” that inspired the “Sweet Shop” section, and discuss the place of poetry in his creative life.

Phillip Lopate, author of the recent New York Review Books essay collection A Year and a Day, will discuss the book in a conversation with Sudip Bose, editor of The American Scholar, at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.

Porter Square Books presents an evening of conversation with Susie Boyt, author of New York Review Books title Loved and Missed, and Claire Messud. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A and a book signing.

The event occurs on October 4th at 7:00 PM EST.

Join Phillip Lopate in conversation with Vivian Gornick discussing his new title with NYRB, A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays, at McNally Jackson Seaport.

The event will occur on October 10th at 7:00 PM EDT. RSVPs are required and can be found here.

McNally Jackson Seaport presents Susie Boyt in conversation with author Joseph O'Neill discussing Boyt's new book with New York Review Books, Loved and Missed.

The event occurs on October 2nd at 6:30 PM EST. RSVPs are required and found here.

Rizzoli Bookstore presents the launch of Ed Subitzky's first-ever collection, Poor Helpless Comics!, as well as Subitzky in conversation with cartoonist/illustrator Mark Newgarden and filmmaker/actor Owen Kline.

The New York Review of Books will be at the Brooklyn Book Festival's Literary Marketplace on 9/30 and 10/1 selling discounted titles.

We will be located at:

Booth 22, Brooklyn Commons at Metrotech, Children's Day, Saturday 9/30, 10am-4pm EST

Booths 405-406, Brooklyn Borough Hall Plaza & Columbus Park, Festival Day, Sunday 10/1, 10am-6pm EST

Come visit us!

The New York Review of Books will be at the Brooklyn Book Festival's Literary Marketplace on 9/30 and 10/1 selling discounted titles.

We will be located at:

Booth 22, Brooklyn Commons at Metrotech, Children's Day, Saturday 9/30, 10am-4pm EST

Booths 405-406, Brooklyn Borough Hall Plaza & Columbus Park, Festival Day, Sunday 10/1, 10am-6pm EST

Come visit us!