About 3,000 linear feet of manuscript material – including correspondence with authors, drafts of articles, and more – to be added to the Library’s collections
NOVEMBER 16, 2015 – The New York Public Library has acquired the archive of The New York Review of Books, the nation’s premier intellectual forum offering authoritative debates and reports on culture, economics, and politics. Founded in 1963 by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein, The Review is a magazine where the most interesting and qualified minds discuss current books and issues in depth for a general audience.
The Library’s Board of Trustees approved the acquisition at its meeting today, bringing about 3,000 linear feet of manuscript material from the publication to the Library’s Manuscripts and Archives Division. The papers – acquired with a generous donation from husband and wife Roger Alcaly and Helen Bodian – are a significant addition to the Library’s collections, already rich with materials documenting the political, cultural and intellectual history of New York City.
The Review has helped to define intellectual discourse over the past four decades. In the early days, editors Silvers (a New York Public Library Trustee) and Epstein sought well-known writers who would bring fresh approaches to the critical discussion of books and ideas. The Review’s early reputation was built on writers such as Elizabeth Hardwick, Hannah Arendt, W. H. Auden, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Joan Didion, Clifford Geertz, Paul Goodman, Nadine Gordimer, Lillian Hellman, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin, Murray Kempton, Dwight Macdonald, Norman Mailer, Mary McCarthy, Adrienne Rich, Susan Sontag, William Styron, Gore Vidal, Robert Penn Warren, Isaiah Berlin, H.R. Trevor-Roper, and Edmund Wilson.
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