Benjamin Ivry
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Benjamin Ivry is an American[citation needed] writer[1] on the arts, broadcaster and translator.
Ivry is author of 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
Bloomberg.com, and The Washington Post
.
Selected bibliography
Biographies
- ISBN 0-7148-3503-X
- ISBN 1-899791-71-X
- 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 ISBN 0-374-22096-4
- Magellania by ISBN 978-1-56649-179-2
- Judge Not by ISBN 0-252-02844-9
- Vanished Splendors, a Memoir by ISBN 0-06-621260-X
- Mon Docteur, Le Vin (My Doctor, Wine) by Gaston Derys with Watercolors by ISBN 0-300-10133-3
- A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes, by 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 ISBN 0-7043-0180-6
- Entretiens, by ISBN 2-07-073394-7
- Love & Folly: Selected Fables and Tales of La Fontaine, by ISBN 1-56649-227-0
- American Writers: a Collection of ISBN 0-684-31234-4
- British Writers Supplement X, edited by Jay Parini, essay on ISBN 0-684-31312-X
- The Oxford Encyclopaedia of American Literature, edited by Jay Parini, essay on ISBN 0-19-515653-6
- The Oxford Encyclopaedia of American Literature, edited by Jay Parini, essay on ISBN 0-19-515653-6
- King Solomon's Mines, by 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 ISBN 0-684-31510-6
- British Writers. Supplement XVI, edited by Jay Parini, essay on ISBN 1-4144-3903-2
- American Writers: Supplement XX, a Collection of Literary Biographies, edited by Jay Parini, essay on ISBN 1-4144-3892-3
- Histoire juive de la France, edited by Sylvie-Anne Goldberg, essay on ISBN 2-2264-4803-9
References
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.
