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The New York Review of Books was founded during the 1962-1963 New York City newspaper strike, and its first issue was published on the 1st of February 1963. The founding editors were Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein, along with publisher A. Whitney Ellsworth and writer Elizabeth Hardwick. The magazine began regular biweekly publication in November 1963.
Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein co-edited The New York Review of Books from its founding in 1963 until Epstein's death in 2006. They were supported by publisher A. Whitney Ellsworth and writer Elizabeth Hardwick, and were encouraged by Jason Epstein, a vice president at Random House, and the poet Robert Lowell.
The first issue, published on the 1st of February 1963, sold out its entire printing of 100,000 copies. It prompted nearly 1,000 letters asking the editors to continue publication. The New Yorker called it "surely the best first issue of any magazine ever."
The New York Review of Books founded the London Review of Books in 1979 during the year-long lockout at The Times of London. For the first six months the London Review appeared as an insert inside the New York Review, then became an independent publication in 1980.
New York Review Books is the book-publishing arm of The New York Review of Books, established in 1999. It operates under several imprints including NYRB Classics, The New York Review Children's Collection, New York Review Comics, NYRB Poets, NYRB Lit, and the Calligrams. The Classics imprint specializes in reissuing out-of-print titles and publishing translations.
David Levine was a caricaturist who illustrated The New York Review of Books from 1963 to 2007, contributing more than 3,800 pen-and-ink caricatures of writers, artists, and politicians. He died in 2009. His drawings gave the publication a distinctive visual identity for nearly its entire first half-century.