Ricardo Lida Nirenberg

Born in Argentina, he has taught mathematics in several lands, most recently at The University at Albany.
Two novels: Cry Uncle (1998, The Latino Press, NY) and Wave Mechanics (Blaurock Press, Canada 2008.)
His writing appears frequently in Offcourse, the e-journal he has edited since 1998.

Please contact him at r.nirenberg@albany.edu. For a more detailed bio and a list of his other publications, see his home page at The University at Albany website.

Ricardo's latest book is Uncountable, A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present, co-written with his son David Nirenberg. It appeared in October 2021, by UChicago Press.

Ricardo's pages in Offcourse:

• "Three Salvos for Cultural Appropriation", by Ricardo Nirenberg, Issue 100, March 2025
• "It's about Time", a dialogue between Joachim Frank and Ricardo Nirenberg, Issue 100, March 2025
• Chapter 17, part of a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg. Issue 99, December 2024
• Chapter 16 of a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg. Issue 98, September 2024
• "Fourier Series and Ironic Horseplay", Chapter 15 of a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg, #97, June 2024
• A review of John Amen's "Dark Souvenirs", NYQ Books, 2024, by Ricardo Nirenberg. #97, June 2024
• "Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales”, Chapter 14 of a Memoir by Ricardo L. Nirenberg, #96, March 2024
• "Life Road Choices", Chapter 13 of a memoir by Ricardo L. Nirenberg, Issue #95, December 2023
• The Beautiful Losses, by Fred Pollack. Review by Ricardo Nirenberg. Issue #94, September 2023
• "Now you are a Man, my Son", an extract from a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg. Issue #94, September 2023
• "A Steep Spiritual Decline", from the memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg, #93 June 2023
• A Spanish Sonnet by Horacio Porta, translated by R. Nirenberg, #93 June 2023
• "On Reading Philosophy after Hours", an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg, #92 March 2023
• Ricardo L. Nirenberg briefly reviews "La Présence Pure", by Christian Bobin in #91, December 2022
• Ricardo L. Nirenberg reviews Sarah White's A Poem has Reasons, Dos Madres Press, Loveland, Ohio, 2022, in #91, December 2022
• "The Dining Room Table: the View from Below", part of a memoir by Ricardo L. Nirenberg, Issue #91, December 2022
• "Early Music", part of a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg in #90, September 2022
• "The Books in my Parents' House", part of a memoir by Ricardo L. Nirenberg in #89
• Ricardo Nirenberg reviews The Music of Light Regret, by Louis Phillips,World Audience Publishers, 2021, in #88
• "How Could They? Part II", an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg in #88, March 2022
• "How Could They?", an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg, in #87, December 2021
•  "Maison Cristina", a novel by Eugene K. Garber, ISBN: 978-0-9846994-8-3 Transformation Press 2021. Presented by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "On the Seashore", a story by Ricardo Nirenberg
• R. Nirenberg reviews "A Portable Chaos", a novel by E.M. Schorb, and "The Thirteenth Studebaker", a collection of short stories by Robert Wexelblatt.
• "The Other Cheek", a story by Ricardo L. Nirenberg
• "The Meatball Hero", a story by Ricardo Nirenberg
• "Then I could sleep", an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg
• "Old Flames", a story by Ricardo Nirenberg
• "Louis Nirenberg in a Dream", by Ricardo Nirenberg
• "Paul Valéry and Some of His Contemptors"
• "P and Q: a Geometric Noir"
• "The Viking from Brooklyn": remembering Stan Johannesen.
• "The Sin Against the Human Spirit", an essay by Ricardo L. Nirenberg
• "Jiggs and Maggie", by Ricardo L. Nirenberg
• "An Old Man's Penumbra", an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg
• "Roman Arena", a chapter from an abandoned novel by R. Nirenberg
• "My Thirteenth Year", part 6 and last of a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
• The Posthumous Papers of Sidney Fein, by Robert Wexelblatt, reviewed by R. Nirenberg
  ISBN 978-1-938349-88-1 Pelekinesis (www.pelekinesis.com) 2018.
• "The Fall of the House of Nordquist," by Eugene K. Garber, and "Matman and Testudo," by R.L. Swihart, reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• Reviews: Poems from Underground, by Francis Blessington, Deerbrook Ed. 2017,
  and Life and Opinions of Doctor Bop the Burnt-Out Prof and Other Poems, by E. M. Schorb, Kelsay Books, 2018.
• "My Thirteenth Year", part V of a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
• Matthew Phillips, The Island's Only Escape, Pleasure Boat Studio, 2018. Review by Ricardo Nirenberg
• "Petites Suites"  by Robert Wexelblatt, reviewed by R. Nirenberg
• "My Thirteenth Year", part IV of a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
• "My Thirteenth Year",Part III of a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
• And Then We Laughed: Poems by Louis Phillips. Prologue Press 2017, reviewed by R. Nirenberg
• S. K. Johannesen, Three Tales, The Electric Ferry Press 2017, ISBN 978-0-9881098-3-4, reviewed by R. Nirenberg
• "My Thirteenth Year", Part II of a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
• John Amen's "Illusion of an Overwhelm," NYQBooks 2017, reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg
• "The Thirteenth Year," Part I of a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
• "Two Zeides," a mini-memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg, Issue #67, Dec.2016
• "The Rapture of Eddy Daemon" (A Posthuman Homage to SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS), BlazeVOX, 2016, by Daniel Y. Harris. Reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg, Issue #67, Dec. 2016
• A review of Louis Armand's novel "The Combinations," Sept. 2016
• Yves Bonnefoy: In Memory of a Great Poet, Issue #66, Sept. 2016
• "Down and Up Cucha-Cucha Street," Issue #66, Sept. 2016
• "The Measure of our World," Issue #65 June 2016
• "Early Tango", an essay, Issue #64, March 2016
• "New Year Irresolutions", Issue #63, Dec. 2015. An essay dedicated to Janet Buck
• "Estoy hecho de vidrio, dijo...", a poem by Carlos Barbarito translated from the Spanish by Ricardo Nirenberg
• "Commencement", Issue #62, September 2015
• "Overflowing Love", Issue #61, June 2015
• "This month of May 2015 two events occurred, apparently unrelated...", commentary by Ricardo Nirenberg, June 2015.
• "On Nothing", an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg, Issue #60, March 2015
• Strange Theater, by John Amen, reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg
• A Poem by Carlos Barbarito translated by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "Alexander Grothendiek: Memories of a Great Mathematician," by Ricardo Nirenberg, Issue #59, December 2014.
• Review of Sarah White's new book, The Unknowing Muse, by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "Under the Dining Room Table", some early memories by Ricardo Nirenberg, #57 June 2014.
• "Frightful symmetry", in Per Contra #31.
• "The Art of Memory" by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "Controlled Hallucinations" by John Sibley Williams, reviewed by R. Nirenberg.
• "Voyage to Greece, 1992" by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• Poems by Carlos Barbarito, translated from the Spanish by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• On Horace Ode I.28
• The Obama Hater
• Necrology.
• Two Poetry Books reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg: "The Last Man" by R. L. Swihart, Kanev Books, 2012, and "The New Arcana" by John Amen and Daniel Y. Harris, NYQ Books, 2012.
• "Uncle Abraham".
• "Ethical Triptych", March 2012.
• "Yves Bonnefoy Interprets Borges", November 2011.
• "When Astrology Works (a true story)", November 2011.
• "In The Beginning Was The Pun", Summer 2011.
• "Seven Peeks Into Infinity", Summer 2011.
• "Dmitri Shostakovich en Parque Patricios," a poem by Rodolfo Mattarollo with a translation by Ricardo Nirenberg. Fall 2010.
• "Regina's Sunday," a story by Ricardo Nirenberg. Fall 2010.
• "The 2010 World Cup", a topical outburst. Summer 2010.
• "The Twilight of the Humanities," an essay. Spring 2010.
• "After the Mayhem at Fort Worth", an essay. December 2009.
• "Two Top Scientists Discuss Life After Death", a story. December 2009.
• Logicomix, an Epic Search for Truth, by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou.  Art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna.  Bloomsbury, New York, 2009. Reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg. December 2009.
• "The Element of Surprise", an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg. September 2009.
• "The Truth Shall Make You Laugh" by Ricardo Nirenberg. September 2009.
• "At The Threshold of Alchemy" by John Amen, reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg. September 2009.
• Words in Air: the Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.  Edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton.  Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2008, reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg. Spring 2009.
• MOM’S CANOE, by Rebecca Foust, Texas Review Press, Huntsville, Texas, 2008, reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg. Spring 2009.
• "Everything is Possible", an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg. January 2009.
• "Indignation", a novel by Philip Roth, reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg. January 2009.
• The 2008 Elections by Ricardo Nirenberg. Fall 2008.
• Two Poems in Spanish by Carlos Barbarito with a translation by Ricardo Nirenberg. Summer 08.
• A poem in Spanish by Rodolfo Mattarollo with a translation by Ricardo Nirenberg. Summer 08
• "Dark Card", a new book of poems by Rebecca Foust, reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg. Summer 08
• "The Southwest and the YMCA", a story by Ricardo Nirenberg. December 2007.
• "Poetry and Reality", Yes-but to a Lecture by Adam Zagajewski, by Ricardo Nirenberg. December 2007.
• Poems by Carlos Barbarito, translated by Ricardo Nirenberg. Spring 2007.
• "The Dissolution of Esthetics", essay by Ricardo Nirenberg. Spring 2007.
• "The Revolt against the Wall", an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg. Fall 2006.
• "Jorge Luis Borges and the European Visitors", by Ricardo Nirenberg. July 2006.
• "Burn the Happy Rabbi", by Ricardo Nirenberg. March 2006.
• Vienna 00, a new collection by Eugene Garber, reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg. March 2006.
• "More of Me Disappears", a new book of poems by John Amen, reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg. December 2005.
• "Arthur Rimbaud and Yves Bonnefoy: Two Poetics of the Imagination", by Ricardo Nirenberg, with translations from the French by the author. Fall 2005.
• The Blue Bubble by Ricardo Nirenberg. Spring 2005.
• "The Same, 1952,"  historical fiction by Ricardo Nirenberg. Winter 2005.
• "Loose Leaves from a German Journey", by Ricardo Nirenberg. Fall 2004.
• From the Editor: Inescapable Torture? by Ricardo Nirenberg. Summer 2004.
• "Baroque Dreams", by Ricardo Nirenberg. Summer 2004.
• "The Moralist in the Locker Room", an essay by Ricardo L. Nirenberg. Winter 2004
• "Beasts in their Wisdom" by Eugene K. Garber. Review by Ricardo L. Nirenberg. Winter 2004.
• "My Turn to Dream," a story by Ricardo Nirenberg. Summer 2003.
• "Big Stick," a story by Ricardo Nirenberg. November 2002.
• "Dada in Albany, NY," by Ricardo Nirenberg. November 2002.
• From my Private Journal:  September 11, 2001 , by Ricardo Nirenberg. Fall 2001.
• Academic Caplets, by Ricardo Nirenberg. Summer 2001.
• "Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus, I, XXIV and XXV", by Ricardo Lida Nirenberg. April 2001.
• "Caplets", by Ricardo Lida Nirenberg. December 2000.
• "Stories of Creation":  an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg. Summer 2000.
• Interview with Philip Schultz by Ricardo Nirenberg. Winter/Spring 2000.
• "Four Festering Sores":  short stories by Ricardo Nirenberg. Fall 1999.
• H, by Ricardo L. Nirenberg. Summer 1999.
• From the Editor, by Ricardo Nirenberg. Spring 1999
• "Witold Gombrowicz, or the Sadness of Form," by Ricardo Nirenberg (in English) (in Spanish) Fall 1998.
• River, Sea, Mother and Prostitute:  the poetry of Fredi Guthmann, by Ricardo Nirenberg. July 1998.
  (in English )  (in Spanish)