In memory of Victor Navasky (1932–2023)
Edwin Frank, born in Colorado in 1960, is the editor of New York Review Books and NYRB Classics. Since 1999, he and a handful of colleagues have published more than five hundred titles noteworthy for their excellence, latitude and cosmopolitanism. The series began by excavating out-of-print gems—in literature, history, criticism, travel writing, essays, memoir—but grew to include original work. The books stand out for the caliber of the prose and the geographical variation of the narrative settings: the dusty colonial settlements of eighteenth-century Paraguay; the Paris of Danton and Balzac; the seedy side of 1920s Buenos Aires; the restless streets of prewar Tokyo; the hell of Stalingrad; the Sicilian towns ruled by the Mafia; the heady Los Angeles of the 1960s and 1970s. NYRB also publishes children’s books, comics and poetry. At a time when Manhattan’s corporate publishers are being swallowed by private equity firms, dispensing with distinguished senior editors and chasing fads, NYRB remains a refuge for the discerning reader. The following conversation was conducted via email, and has been edited for length and style.
—Scott Sherman
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