Have I never talked about how much I love the New York Review of Books Classics?

I have no idea when or how the NYRB classics series began, but it is amazing. You know how the Penguin Classics are every book you've ever heard of but never read? Well the NYRB classics are every book that you ought to have heard. They're fantastic. And there's a definite aesthetic tilt to the books, too. Where Penguin Classics are often long and serio…