The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books (or NYREV ) is a biweekly magazine on literature, culture and politics, published in New York. It is to be distinguished from the New York Times Book Review, the weekly literary supplement of the New York Times. The NYREV keeps the discussion of important books for even an indispensable literary activity. The edition was in 2013 at 142,000 copies ..
In addition to book reviews, and articles from the literary feuilleton the NYRB published from the beginning also political issues articles.
History
The New York Review was founded in 1963 by Robert Silvers, who publishes the magazine since the beginning until today, and Barbara Epstein ( 1928-2006 ), together with A. Whitney Ellsworth as a publisher. The opportunity came during the New York printer strikes in the same year as the book publishers had to rely on the face of the failure of newspapers to spread their new releases reviews by other means. Since 1984, the NYRB is owned by the publisher Rea Hederman, who has the makers assured the complete editorial independence and this promise kept, according to the co-founder and chief editor Robert Silvers.
The first issues of the Review contained articles by authors such as WH Auden, Elizabeth Hardwick, Hannah Arendt, Charles Rosen, Edmund Wilson, Susan Sontag, Robert Penn Warren, Lillian Hellman, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Saul Bellow, Robert Lowell, Truman Capote, William Styron and Mary McCarthy. The audience bought virtually the entire run of the first edition and thousands of letters were written, who urged it to continue the show.
The Review sometimes published articles and collections of articles as a book under the imprint NYRB.