Anthology: The New York Review of Books 1963|93

by Robert B. Silvers (Editor), Barbara Epstein (Editor)

Genres: Essays, Nonfiction, Anthologies

290 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Robert Silvers was an American editor who served as editor of The New York Review of Books from 1963 to 2017.

Reviews

[Frank Ashe · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of mostly fine writing.
This book has been on my to-read bookcase for almost 30 years and the writing has stood the test of time, and it's interesting to be reminded of the issues of the previous 30 years to that time.

[Belle · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this old book in an old bookshop, and I was surprised by how many well-known modern voices were in it, like Hannah Arendt, Sylvia Plath, W.H. Auden, Susan Sontag, and Joan Didion. Elizabeth Hardwick's beginning piece on "After Watts" was a striking simulacrum of the ongoing racial injustice that exists in our society (and she wrote this during the Civil Rights Movement). "'What can violence bring you when the white people have the police and the power? What can it bring you except death?' 'Well, we are dying a little bit every day.'" Hardwick writes about the hypocrisy of a government which will not address the entrenched racism existing in America. Arendt discusses structures of power and violence that obliterate our nation. Sound familiar?