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#NYRBWomen25

A Year-long Group Reading Project: January thru December 2025​
•  NYRB Classics written by Women  
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In December 2022, I was looking at my stack of unread NYRB Classics written by women and #NYRBWomen23 was born. 60 titles later, we're in the midst of year 3. (You can find our past schedules here.) Anyone is welcome to join at any time -- for one book, several or all. We typically average between 14-18 pages per day and you can follow &/or join the conversation on ​Bluesky or Instagram using the hashtag #NYRBWomen25. Page guides & other links of interest will be published here. 
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DON'T MISS: Trevor Berrett of The Mookse and the Gripes puts together a lovely video every year featuring the books we will be reading. I'm so grateful that he does this. You can watch it here on Instagram. Also, Radhika Pandit often writes about the books we've been reading on her blog. Here's a post she wrote about her highlights from #NYRBWomen24.

#NYRBWomen25 Current

1-15 August 2025
TALK
​by Linda Rosenkrantz
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Links of Interest:
  • Linda Rosenkrantz Wikipedia Bio
Here's our current page guide. It makes a great bookmark. :)
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#NYRBWomen25 Next

Beginning August 16, 2025
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#NYRBWomen25 Archive

23-31 July 2025
FREE DAY
​by Inès Cagnati
(translated from the French by Liesl Schillinger)

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Links of Interest:
  • Inès Cagnati Wikipedia Bio
  • NYRB Introduction by Liesl Schillinger, LitHub, 5 Dec 2019
  • Feminize Your Canon: Inès Cagnati by Joanna Scutts, The Paris Review, 20 Feb 2020​
  • 1989 Interview w/Inès Cagnati (mentioned in the above article by Joanna Scutts) [video]

3-22 July 2025
PARIS STORIES
​by Mavis Gallant
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Links of Interest:
  • ​Mavis Gallant Wikipedia Bio
  • Interview with Mavis Gallant from 1993 (Starts at 31:00)
  • Chasing Mystery Through Fiction: On the Life and Literary Career of Mavis Gallant by Garth Risk Hallberg, LitHub, 20 Jan 2025
  • Radhika's Reading Retreat, 25 Jul 2025

18 June thru 2 July 2025
ANGEL
​by Elizabeth Taylor
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Links of Interest:
  • Borrow a copy from the Internet Archive​
  • Elizabeth Taylor Wikipedia Bio
  • How the Other Elizabeth Taylor Reconciled Family Life and Art by Namara Smith, The New Yorker, 16 Jun 2015
  • JacquiWine's Journal, 6 Oct 2024​​
  • Trevor's Instagram Review, 3 Jul 2025
  • Radhika's Reading Retreat, 14 Jul 2025
  • **Highly recommended: Elizabeth and Ivy by Robert Liddell

1-17 June 2025
A HOUSE AND ITS HEAD
by Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Links of Interest:
  • Borrow a copy from the Internet Archive​
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett Wikipedia Bio
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett NYT Obit
  • ​Unburied Books Podcast with Guest John Darnielle​​
  • Trevor's Instagram Review, 26 Jun 2025
  • Radhika's Reading Retreat, 14 Jul 2025
  • **Highly recommended: Elizabeth and Ivy by Robert Liddell

16-31 May 2025
KATALIN STREET
by Magda Szabó
(translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix)
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Links of Interest:
  • Borrow a copy from the Internet Archive
  • Magda Szabó Wikipedia Bio
  • Looking for Katalin Street by Rebecca Chace, Guernica, 26 Mar 2018
  • JacquiWine's Journal, 14 Jan 2024
  • Kubi's Instagram Review, 1 Jun 2025​​

1-15 May 2025
THREE SUMMERS
by Margarita Liberaki
(translated from the Greek by Karen Van Dyck)
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Links of Interest:
  • ​Margarita Liberaki Wikipedia Bio
  • Radhika's Reading Retreat, 4 Aug 2021
  • JacquiWine's Journal, 5 Aug 2020

18-26 April 2025
GREAT GRANNY WEBSTER
by Caroline Blackwood
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Links of Interest:
  • Borrow a copy from the Internet Archive​
  • Caroline Blackwood Wikipedia Bio
  • Trevor's Instagram Review, 1 May 2025
  • ​Radhika's Reading Retreat, 12 May 2025

1-16 April 2025
THE NEW YORK STORIES
of Elizabeth Hardwick
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Links of Interest:
  • Elizabeth Hardwick Wikipedia Bio​
  • Radhika's Reading Retreat, 18 Apr 2025​

16-31 March 2025
THE UNPOSSESSED
​by Tess Slesinger
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Links of Interest:
  • Tess Slesinger Wikipedia Bio
  • Young in the Thirties by Lionel Trilling, May 1966​
  • The Unpossessed with Paula Rabinowitz and Peter Davis. Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast with Kim Askew & Amy Helmes, Episode 89, 31 May 2022

1-15 March 2025
WRITTEN ON WATER
​by Eileen Chang
​(translated from the Chinese by Andrew F. Jones)
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Links of Interest:
  • Eileen Chang Wikipedia Bio
  • The Juicy Secrets of Everyday Life by Meng Jin, The Atlantic, 30 Jun 2023​
  • The Solitude of Eileen Chang by Mariella Radaelli, China Daily, 12 Apr 2024
  • In A Bronze Mirror: Eileen Chang's Life & Literature, USC Libraries Collection
  • Radhika's Reading Retreat, 11 Apr 2025

24-28 February 2025
FAMILY and BORGHESIA
​by Natalia Ginzburg
​(translated from the Italian by Beryl Stockman)
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Links of Interest:
  • Natalia Ginzburg Wikipedia Bio
  • Rediscovering Natalia Ginzburg by Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 22 Jul 2019
  • ‘If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor’: the complex world of Natalia Ginzburg by Lara Feigel, The Guardian, 25 Feb 2019
  • Building Lives on Sand: On Natalia Ginzburg’s “Family” and “Borghesia” by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, LARB, 27 May 2021
  • JacquiWine's Journal, 17 Feb 2022
  • Radhika's Reading Retreat, 4 Mar 2025

6 January thru 23 February 2025
LIES AND SORCERY
​by Elsa Morante
​(translated from the Italian by Jenny McPhee)
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Links of Interest:
  • Elsa Morante Wikipedia Bio
  • Le Pupille (2022 short film), directed by Alice Rohrwacher & inspired by a Christmas letter, which Elsa Morante sent to her friend & literary critic, Goffredo Fofi
  • Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante — an exquisite new translation by Lucy Scholes, The Financial Times, 30 Dec 2024
  • Virtuosos of Self-Deception by Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review, 2 Nov 2023
  • Outlandish epic: Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante, reviewed by Francesca Peacock, The Spectator 
  • Trevor's Instagram Review, 25 Feb 2025
  • Radhika's Reading Retreat, 27 Feb 2025

 1-5 January 2025
ON THE ABOLITION OF ALL
​POLITICAL PARTIES

​by Simone Weil
(translated from the French by Simon Leys)
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Links of Interest:
  • Simone Weil Wikipedia Bio
  • Truth, Justice, and Public Good: Simone Weil on Political Manipulation, the Dangers of “For” and “Against,” and How to Save Thinking from Opinion, The Marginalian, 13 October 2018
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