Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
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The New York Review of Books (NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine publishing long-form essays and reviews on literature, culture, politics, science and current affairs.
The NYRB launched during the 1962-63 New York City newspaper strike, when Robert B. Silvers, Barbara Epstein, Jason Epstein, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick saw an opportunity to fill the gap left by the suspended New York Times Book Review. The first issue, published February 1, 1963, sold out its 100,000-copy printing and drew nearly 1,000 letters demanding the Review continue. Silvers and Epstein co-edited the magazine until Epstein's death in 2006; Silvers then served as sole editor until his own death in 2017. Ian Buruma edited the Review from September 2017 to September 2018, followed by co-editors Gabriel Winslow-Yost and Emily Greenhouse from February 2019; Greenhouse became sole editor in February 2021. The Review helped launch the London Review of Books in 1979.
Early issues featured writers including W.H. Auden, Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag and Gore Vidal; the Review has published interviews with dissidents including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Sakharov and Václav Havel, and operates the New York Review Books publishing imprint, established in 1999.
Editor: Emily Greenhouse
The NYRB serves readers of literary and political criticism worldwide, with circulation around 149,000 as of 2013, roughly 80% subscriber renewal, and roughly one-third of its pages devoted to advertising from publishers, including many university presses.
Address
435 Hudson Street
New York, NY
Website
https://www.nybooks.com
Sources
The New York Review of Books. About Us
Los Angeles Review of Books. 50 Years of "NYRB": An Interview with Robert Silvers
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