The New York Review: A Close Look

The New York Review: A Close Look

The editorial credo of the New York Review of Books, which began publication in February 1963, was what one might expect of a highbrow journal.

… Neither time nor space … have been spent on books which are trivial in their intentions or venal in their effects, except occasionally to reduce a temporarily inflated reputation or to call attention to a fraud…

Almost immediately it achieved its modest thou...