What happens when Sleep needs to sleep?

“Parc’s English-language debut creates an extraordinary visual lullaby built around a slumber-granting figure’s nightly rounds.... It’s a rare bedtime picture book that embodies the very feeling it describes: that twilight state in which rollicking consciousness surrenders to dreams.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review For ages 3–7 HELLO SLEEP Saehan Parc Translated from the French by Selene Bright Sleep is a friendly figure with a magic wand, who visits all living things and sends them off to dreamland when night falls. You know about Sleep, she visits you every night without fail. But what about Sleep, doesn’t she need her slumber too? Everyone she stops to ask just dozes off! Sleep travels the world, seeking cozy places to settle down, from atop a bunch of baby chicks, to Santa’s beard, to a baobob canopy; she listens to a lullaby, a meditation; she floats down the Amazon and rides an updraft in Siberia. Nothing does the trick: sleep keeps evading Sleep! Until a cat’s soft purring snore sends Sleep just where she needs to go. Goodnight, Sleep. BUY THE BOOK   For three days only, Hello Sleep is available at 25% off along with four other books from NYRB Kids: THE BACKWARD DAY Ruth Krauss Illustrated by Marc Simont BUY THE BOOK BEAR BY HIMSELF Geoffrey Hayes BUY THE BOOK EVERYTHING UNDER A MUSHROOM Ruth Krauss Illustrated by Margot Tomes BUY THE BOOK THE MAN WHO LOST HIS HEAD Claire Huchet Bishop Illustrated by Robert McCloskey BUY THE BOOK You are receiving this message because you signed up for email newsletters from NYRB. You can choose the types of mailings you wish to receive: Update preferences   New York Review Books 207 East 32nd Street New York, NY 10016-6305 Not a subscriber? Sign up for our newsletter here. Unsubscribe

'Cruz torcida', la novela olvidada que predijo el nazismo y es un fenómeno literario 90 años después

Si no puedes ver correctamente este correo, pincha en este enlace. Llega a librerías Cruz torcida de Sally Carson, la novela profética de 1934 que anticipó el clima del nazismo y se ha convertido en un fenómeno editorial 90 años después de su publicación original. Cruz torcida, de Sally Carson, es una novela escrita en 1934, en pleno ascenso del nazismo, que hoy vuelve convertida en un clásico redescubierto y en una lectura de una actualidad estremecedora. A través de Lexa y de su familia asistimos a cómo una sociedad se va deformando poco a poco, cómo el fanatismo se instala en lo cotidiano y cómo incluso el amor empieza a verse amenazado cuando el odio gana terreno. Eso es precisamente lo que hace de Cruz torcida una novela tan poderosa: su capacidad para narrar un gran momento histórico desde lo cercano, desde lo emocional, desde todo aquello que una persona puede perder cuando el miedo y la intolerancia empiezan a imponerse. Con tensión, sensibilidad y una lucidez sorprendente, Sally Carson construyó una historia que sigue resonando con fuerza décadas después. VER LIBRO GUÍA DE LECTURA EMPEZAR A LEER Sobre Cruz torcida se ha dicho...  «Un fenómeno que corre de lector en lector y que los deja a todos boquiabiertos. Leerla hoy es una experiencia extraordinaria. Las resonancias con las actualidad son insoslayables. Ojalá todos tuviéramos la clarividencia y la luz moral de Carson.» The Guardian «La novela de los años treinta que se ha convertido en un éxito inesperado. Ambientada en un pequeño pueblo de los Alpes, presenta un retrato inquietantemente familiar del auge del fascismo.» The New Yorker «Una mirada implacable a los primeros días del nazismo que resuena con los temores actuales sobre jóvenes perdidos, hombres fuertes y viejos odios. Una novela extraordinaria: escalofriante, convincente y contenida.» The Times   Sobre la autora Sally Carson (1902-1941) escribió Cruz torcida cuando Europa empezaba a tambalearse, mientras trabajaba como profesora de danza y como lectora editorial. Murió joven, pero dejó una desgarradora novela que nos recuerda que la historia, a veces, se repite. DIRECCIÓN C/Valentín Beato, 21, 28037 Madrid. España info@alianzaeditorial.es SÍGUENOS Facebook X Instagram YouTube © 2026. Alianza editorial Darse de baja de Alianza Editorial Le informamos de que sus datos han sido facilitados por Ud. la empresa Alianza Editorial S.A., Calle Valentín Beato, 21 de Madrid 28037 (España), donde podrá ejercitar sus derechos de acceso, rectificación, supresión y oposición, limitación del tratamiento, portabilidad de datos y a no ser objeto de decisiones individualizadas automatizadas de elaboración de perfiles, de acuerdo con Reglamento (UE) 2016/679 relativo a la protección de las personas físicas en lo que respecta al tratamiento de datos personales y a la libre circulación de estos datos (RGPD) y la Ley Orgánica 3/2018 y a la Ley 34/2002 de Servicios de la Sociedad de la Información y de Comercio Electrónico (LSSI). Para más información relativa al tratamiento de sus datos de carácter personal, consulte nuestra política de privacidad y aviso legal.

Get Inès Cagnati’s ‘Crazy Genie’ with the NYRB Classics Book Club

Sign up now for a one-year membership to the NYRB Classics Book Club to get $70 off the regular rate. As a club member, you will receive a newly published book from the NYRB Classics series in your mailbox each month. Each selection is handpicked by NYRB editors. Order by Wednesday, April 15, and we’ll begin your membership with Inès Cagnati’s Crazy Genie, translated from the French by Liesl Schillinger. Rich in observation and detail, it is a devastating portrayal of a child’s unconditional love and of society’s callous prejudices. As Sonya Walger writes of the novel, “The young narrator must interpret her elusive, impenetrable mother by paying vigilant close attention, and the result is a story of exquisite observation, taut with longing, in a landscape pulsing with terrors real and imagined. I held my breath until the final word.” Click here to sign up! You are receiving this message because you signed up for newsletters from The New York Review or New York Review Books. You can choose the types of messages you wish to receive: Update preferences   207 East 32nd Street New York, NY 10016-6305 Unsubscribe

Leslie A. Fiedler’s ‘Love and Death in the American Novel’

“Leslie Fiedler's Love and Death in the American Novel is one of the greatest books ever written about American literature. It makes some provocative assertions, true, but more than anything, it's this high-velocity voice-driven exploration of what makes American literature itself. And Fiedler is pound for pound just one of the most incredible stylists we've ever seen.” —Brandon Taylor LOVE AND DEATH IN THE AMERICAN NOVEL Leslie A. Fiedler Leslie A. Fiedler's Love and Death in the American Novel is a study of American fiction from its beginnings up through the 1960s. In this tour de force from the great mid-twentieth-century era of literary criticism, Fiedler argues that American literature is gothic at heart, marked by a terror of sexuality and an obsession with violence, escape, and death. The American writer, he says, confronts a world that is "without a significant history or a substantial past; a world which had left behind the terror of Europe not for the innocence it dreamed of, but for new and special guilts associated with the rape of nature and the exploitation of dark-skinned people." Fiedler's own book, as brilliantly written as it is provocatively conceived, is itself a contribution to American literature. His puckish suggestion is that we read it "not as a conventional scholarly book—or an eccentric one—but a kind of gothic novel (complete with touches of black humor) whose subject is American experience as recorded in our classic fiction." “I know few works of criticism that are so likely to involve the reader whose interest in literature is not of a professional kind.... It amounts to a general cultural history of the nation.” —Lionel Trilling BUY THE BOOK   For three days only, Love and Death in the American Novel is available at 25% off along with a selection of mid-twentieth-century American novels: WARLOCK Oakley Hall BUY THE BOOK IN A LONELY PLACE Dorothy B. Hughes BUY THE BOOK THE OUTWARD ROOM Millen Brand BUY THE BOOK THE MOUNTAIN LION Jean Stafford BUY THE BOOK You are receiving this message because you signed up for email newsletters from NYRB. You can choose the types of mailings you wish to receive: Update preferences   New York Review Books 207 East 32nd Street New York, NY 10016-6305 Not a subscriber? Sign up for our newsletter here. Unsubscribe