The division was started in the fall of 1999. It grew out of another enterprise called the '''Reader's Catalog''' (subtitle: "The 40,000 best books in print"), which sold books through a catalog. Edwin Frank is the editor of the Classics imprint.
NYRB Collections is a series of books that collect essays by frequent contributors to
The New York Review of Books. With works by writers such as
Larry McMurtry,
Frank Rich,
Mary McCarthy,
Freeman Dyson and others, NYRB Collections present treatments of major intellectual, political, scientific, and artistic developments and debates. It is an
e-book-only series that strives to publish titles considered too low in profitability for traditional publishers. Other collections and series include
New York Review Comics,
NYRB Poets, and Calligrams, a "series of writings from and on China". ==References==