The New York Review of Books 2008 Desk Diary

The New York Review of Books has been regarded as "the premier journal of the American intellectual elite virtually since its inception."* Carry its distinctive and time-honored spirit with you as you plan the year ahead.

The The New York Review of Books 2008 Desk Diary features 53 black-and-white photographs by Dominique Nabokov of novelists, poets, and playwrights– whose works have been reviewed in its pages or who themselves have written for The New York Review of Books.

This collection of author portraits includes Italo Calvino, John Ashbury, Joseph Brodsky, Joan Didion, Seamus Heaney, Diane Johnson, Susan Sontag, Stephen Spender, Luc Sante, Colm Toibin, and dozens of other international literary luminaries. Each portrait will be accompanied by a list of articles by or about the writer that have appeared in the NYRB.

The French photographer Dominique Nabokov works in the United States and in Europe. Her first photograph for The New York Review of Books appeared in 1984. Since then, her photographs have appeared regularly in its pages. Her work, both portraiture and reportage, has also appeared in the New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, l'Express, Le Nouvel Observateur, Le Monde, Libération, Die Zeit, Interview, A.D France, Nest, and many other publications. She has published two books of photographs, New York Living Rooms and Paris Living Rooms.

*New York Magazine, September 2006