The New York Review《紐約書評》55周年慶，開放幾篇名家書評：

維基百科，自由的百科全書

(重新導向自 The New York Review of Books)

《紐約書評》（The New York Review of Books，縮寫為NYRB）是一本在美國紐約市發行的半月刊（確切地說是每年二十期，學期段每月兩期，寒暑假每月一期，顯然是為了配合高校師生的生活日程），內容涉及文學、文化以及時事。雜誌的出發點是：對重要書籍的討論本身就是不可或缺的文學活動。2003年，《紐約書評》的發行量超過了115,000份。

《紐約書評》雜誌由羅伯特·史威爾斯、傑森•愛潑斯坦、芭芭拉·愛潑斯坦、洛威爾夫婦（羅伯特和伊莉莎白）在1963年的紐約出版界罷工中創辦。雜誌首刊文章的作者包括：W.H. Auden、Elizabeth Hardwick、漢娜·阿倫特、Edmund Wilson、蘇珊·桑塔格、Robert Penn Warren、Lillian Hellman、Norman Mailer、Gore Vidal、索爾·貝婁、Robert Lowell、Truman Capote、William Styron和Mary McCarthy。雜誌得到了公眾熱情的回應，幾乎所有已印刷的都被售出，同時雜誌社還收到數千封來信要求繼續出版。

在接受《上海書評》的採訪中，西爾弗斯談到《紐約書評》與《紐約時報書評》、《泰晤士報文學增刊》、《倫敦書評》的區別：

我們很不一樣。《泰晤士報文學增刊》、《紐約時報書評》希望達到的是一種全面性，他們試圖在一定水準上涵蓋一切領域的重要書籍。當然我很尊重他們的做法，也知道他們的難處，但我們不會這樣，我只發我感興趣的書評，或是我的朋友、作者會感興趣的書評。我拿到一本書，會把腦海里那一百多個名字過一遍，誰能寫書評？而不是拿到一本書，一定要找到隨便哪個人寫書評。有些重要的書如果找不到合適的作者，我們就不得不放棄這個選題。更多的是平庸的書，我們的作者不屑於寫評論。所以我們肯定會漏掉很多書。 《倫敦書評》最初是我們創辦的，但是因為運營成本太高，很快就讓它獨立了。《倫敦書評》是傑出女性的成就（主編瑪麗·凱-維爾梅斯），書評經常提出精彩而令人振奮的問題。他們發展得很好，有高質量的作者隊伍，我們也分享很多作者，比如小說家科爾姆•托賓等等。我不相信獨家作者的說法，我不會對作者說「你只能為我們寫，不能為其他刊物寫」。[1]

《紐約書評》是美國東海岸自由左派知識分子的大本營，以率先反對越戰成為媒體楷模；1970年發表了諾姆·喬姆斯基的一些政治作品。21世紀初，雜誌又開始擔當批評美國總統小布希的角色。「對政府保持懷疑精神」是該刊堅持的立場。

除了政治社會方面的評論外，《紐約書評》認為作家應該抒寫當代事件，知名作家瓊•狄迪恩（Joan Didion）1983年去了南美的薩爾瓦多，描寫了恐怖的內戰氣氛。她還去了邁阿密，調查古巴流亡者，同樣寫到了在卡斯楚政權下的那種恐懼。文學想像能夠敏銳地呈現社會、政治、文化的深層現實，這其中的微妙性能夠超越學者的理性分析或是記者的客觀報導。《紐約書評》還派瑪麗•麥卡錫去了越戰中的西貢，發表了奈保爾寫中東、南美、印度、非洲的許多文字。小說家、詩人描寫當代事件是《紐約書評》從過去到現在的重要組成部分。

《紐約書評》有時候會挑選一些文章重印成帶有「NYRB」印記的小冊子。

註釋[編輯]

1. 移至^ "eCirc for Consumer Magazines Archive.is的存檔，存檔日期2012-06-04." Audit Bureau of Circulations. Retrieved November 17, 2011.

外部連結[編輯]

紐約書評官方網站
Neyfakh, Leon. "Mr. Silvers, Will You Peek at My Books?" New York Observer, February 6, 2008
2011 NPR interview of Silvers about the Review
Danner, Mark. "Editing the New York Review of Books: A Conversation with Robert B. Silvers", April 28, 1999

The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books newsletters@nybooks.com via cmail2.com	Jun 20, 2018, 7:53 AM
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To celebrate The New York Review’s fifty-fifth anniversary, we are featuring one article from each year of the magazine’s history. Today’s selection, from the early Eighties, includes Renata Adler’s infamous critique of Pauline Kael, an essay by Ada Louise Huxtable on modern architecture, Robert Hughes on Andy Warhol, Nadine Gordimer on the dying white order of apartheid South Africa, and Stephen Jay Gould on the life and work of Barbara McClintock.     1980 The Perils of Pauline Renata Adler 我沒讀過她的書。(born October 19, 1937) is an American author, journalist, and film critic.  Over the years, Ms. Kael’s quirks, mannerisms, tactics, and excesses have not only taken over her work so thoroughly that hardly anything else, nothing certainly of intelligence or sensibility, remains; they have also proved contagious, so that the content and level of critical discussion, of movies but also of other forms, have been altered astonishingly for the worse. Also see: The Lights Go Down (letters)   1981 Is Modern Architecture Dead? Ada Louise Huxtable/ 當然Wikipedia 有他的傳，很難得：Ada Louise Huxtable (née Landman;  1921 –  2013) was an architecture critic and writer on architecture. In 1970 she was awarded the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Has modern ar然chitecture really failed? Or are we loading onto it our perceptions of another kind of failure—something far beyond the architect’s control? I believe that we are addressing a much larger theme: the failure of a moral vision and the breakdown of ideals of a society in transition. What we have lost is what sociologists and psychologists call our “belief systems”—those commonly held convictions that guide our acts and aspirations. No society can function without them.   1982 The Rise of Andy Warhol Robert Hughes  (1938 –  2012)知名的藝術評論家。我們可以在YouTube看他的系列影片The Shock of the New 等 The working-class kid who had spent so many thousands of hours gazing into the blue, anesthetizing glare of the TV screen, like Narcissus into his pool, realized that the cultural moment of the mid-Sixties favored a walking void. Television was producing an affectless culture. Warhol set out to become one of its affectless heroes.   1983 Living in the Interregnum Nadine Gordimer  南非的諾貝爾文學獎： (1923 –  2014) I live at 6,000 feet in a society whirling, stamping, swaying with the force of revolutionary change. The vision is heady; the image of the demonic dance is accurate, not romantic: an image of actions springing from emotion, knocking deliberation aside. The city is Johannesburg, the country South Africa, and the time the last years of the colonial era in Africa.   1984 Triumph of a Naturalist Stephen Jay Gould (1941~2002 本身就是有名的科普作家；他所評論的，參考：《玉米田裡的先知：異類遺傳學家麥克林托克》) Barbara McClintock’s discovery of transposable elements in maize was, in retrospect, the beginning of modern molecular genetics. She suffered the fate of many pioneers—incomprehension and bewilderment from most colleagues who could not read her maps of terra incognita. But by tenacity, the blessings of long life, and continuous fruitful activity, she has avoided the maudlin ending of most tales in the annals of exploration, and has lived to savor her triumph in the midst of an active career.