Instead of a Letter
by Diana Athill
I've been waiting for years to make Athill's 1963 memoir a Phinney by Post selection, so as soon as NYRB Classics brought it back into print, I pounced. Athill was a prominent British book editor, and... (Tom)
My Very Own Special Particular Private and Personal Cat
by Sandol Stoddard Warburg, illustrated by Remy Charlip
Anyone who has owned a cat knows that you can't really own a cat. Cats, after all, as the boy in this funny and wise and stylish book from 1963 learns, are their own private and personal things and wh... (Tom)
The Bee Sting
by Paul Murray
The unhappiness of families is a gift to novelists everywhere; the particular unhappiness of the Barnes family, one of the most prominent in a dull town not far from Dublin, is surely made worse by th... (Tom)
This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America
by Navied Mahdavian
"We were in search of adventure. A place we could own land and start a family. The Millennial dream." This Country is a beautifully illustrated story of two artists—a documentary filmmaker and a teach... (Anika)