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
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"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)