Benjamin Ivry

Benjamin Ivry is an American ^[1] writer ^[2] on the arts, broadcaster and translator.

Ivry authored biographies of Francis Poulenc, Arthur Rimbaud, and Maurice Ravel, as well as a poetry collection, Paradise for the Portuguese Queen. The latter contains poems that first appeared in, among other places, The New Yorker , the London Review of Books , The Spectator , Ambit Magazine, and The New Republic .

He has also translated books from the French by authors such as André Gide, Jules Verne, Witold Gombrowicz, and Balthus. Ivry has written about the arts for a variety of periodicals including The New York Observer , The New York Sun , New England Review , The Economist , The Wall Street Journal , Newsweek , Time , New Statesman , The New York Times , Bloomberg.com , and The Washington Post .

Selected bibliography

Biographies

• Francis Poulenc , 1996, Phaidon, ISBN   0-7148-3503-X
• Arthur Rimbaud , 1998, Absolute Press, ISBN   1-899791-71-X
• Maurice Ravel: a Life, 2000, Welcome Rain, ISBN   1-56649-152-5, translated into Japanese by Shun Ishihara as *Mōrisu raveru: aru shōgai, 2002, Arufabēta, ISBN   4-87198-469-9

Poetry

• Paradise for the Portuguese Queen: Poems by Benjamin Ivry, 1998, Orchises Press, ISBN   0-914061-69-0

Nonfiction

• Regatta: a Celebration of The Art of Oarsmanship, 1988, Simon and Schuster, ISBN   0-671-69936-9
• Sighing For The Silvery Moon: English Music Hall Songs Reexamined, 2022, Wolke Verlag, ISBN   978-3-95593-323-4
• Parlez-moi d’amour: Themes in French Popular Song from the Commune to World War II, 2023, Wolke Verlag, ISBN   978-3-95593-325-8

Translations

• Without End: New and Selected Poems by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Benjamin Ivry with Renata Gorczynski and Clare Cavanagh, 2002, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ISBN   0-374-22096-4
• Magellania by Jules Verne, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2002, Welcome Rain Publishers, ISBN   978-1-56649-179-2
• Judge Not by André Gide, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2003, University of Illinois Press, ISBN   0-252-02844-9
• Vanished Splendors, a Memoir by Balthus, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2003, Ecco Press, ISBN   0-06-621260-X
• Mon Docteur, Le Vin (My Doctor, Wine) by Gaston Derys with Watercolors by Raoul Dufy, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2003, Yale University Press, ISBN   0-300-10133-3
• A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes, by Witold Gombrowicz, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2007, Yale University Press, ISBN   0-300-12368-X
• At Home with André and Simone Weil, by Sylvie Weil, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2010, Northwestern University Press, ISBN   978-0-8101-2704-3
• Chinese Piano: or Dueling over a Recital, by Étienne Barilier, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2015, Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH, ISBN   978-3-9594-8086-4
• Clepsydra: Essay on the Plurality of Time in Judaism, by Sylvie Anne Goldberg, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2016, Stanford University Press, ISBN   978-0-8047-8905-9
• Transmitting Jewish History: In Conversation with Sylvie Anne Goldberg, by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2021, Brandeis University Press, ISBN   978-1684580613

Book chapters, prefaces, editions

• The Trouble with Being Born, by E. M. Cioran, translated by Richard Howard, preface by Benjamin Ivry, 1993, Quartet Books, ISBN   0-7043-0180-6
• Entretiens, by E. M. Cioran, chapter by Benjamin Ivry, 1995, Gallimard Publishers, ISBN   2-07-073394-7
• Love & Folly: Selected Fables and Tales of La Fontaine, by Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Marie Ponsot, edited and prefaced by Benjamin Ivry, 2002, Welcome Rain Publishers, ISBN   1-56649-227-0
• American Writers: a Collection of literary biographies. Supplement XIV, Cleanth Brooks to Logan Pearsall Smith, edited by Jay Parini, essay on Logan Pearsall Smith by Benjamin Ivry, 2004, Charles Scribner's Sons, ISBN   0-684-31234-4
• British Writers Supplement X, edited by Jay Parini, essay on Norman Douglas by Benjamin Ivry, 2004, Charles Scribner's Sons, ISBN   0-684-31312-X
• The Oxford Encyclopaedia of American Literature, edited by Jay Parini, essay on Herman Melville by Benjamin Ivry, 2004, Oxford University Press, ISBN   0-19-515653-6
• The Oxford Encyclopaedia of American Literature, edited by Jay Parini, essay on Richard Howard by Benjamin Ivry, 2004, Oxford University Press, ISBN   0-19-515653-6
• King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard, preface by Benjamin Ivry, 2004, Barnes & Noble Classics, ISBN   1-59308-275-4
• American Writers: a Collection of Literary Biographies. Supplement XVI, John James Audubon to Gustaf Sobin, edited by Jay Parini, essay on Anita Loos by Benjamin Ivry, 2007, Charles Scribner's Sons, ISBN   0-684-31510-6
• British Writers. Supplement XVI, edited by Jay Parini, essay on Thomas Campion by Benjamin Ivry, 2010, Charles Scribner's Sons, ISBN   1-4144-3903-2
• American Writers: Supplement XX, a Collection of Literary Biographies, edited by Jay Parini, essay on Howard Overing Sturgis by Benjamin Ivry, 2010, Charles Scribner's Sons, ISBN   1-4144-3892-3
• Histoire juive de la France, edited by Sylvie-Anne Goldberg, essay on Barbara by Benjamin Ivry, 2023, Albin Michel, ISBN   2-2264-4803-9

References

1. "Benjamin Ivry – Commentary Magazine" . Retrieved 2024-06-19.
2. "The Secret Pan".

External links

• poems and translations published in The New Yorker
• poems in The Evergreen Review
• articles in the New York Sun
• articles in the New York Observer
• articles in The Forward Newspaper
• contributions to the Horizon section of Commentary Magazine
• Alan Riding, 'The Secret Pan', Review of Maurice Ravel: A Life, The New York Times, December 3, 2000.
• Jori Finkel, 'Like a Prayer: The Naked Ambition of Balthus', Review of Vanished Splendors, a Memoir by Balthus, Village Voice, January 15–21, 2003.
• Louis Begley, 'The Late, Great Bard of Warsaw', Review of A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes, The Washington Post, December 19, 2004.
• Peter Monaghan, 'Mystic and Mysterious', Review of At Home With André and Simone Weil, The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 20, 2010.
• Piers Paul Read, 'A bitter legacy', Review of At Home With André and Simone Weil, The Spectator, January 8, 2011.