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Writings from The New Yorker
Knopf
May 2006
496 pages
ISBN: 0307263584
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Literature and Fiction
From one of the most gifted and widely read journalists at
work today, a volume that collects the best of his pieces
from The New Yorker over the last fifteen
years. David Remnick is fascinated by the men and women
obsessed with creating the history of our era as well as
those intent on chronicling it. Public figures rarely step
away from their public selves. But Remnick has the ability
to see the private self beneath the public facade and give
readers startling glimpses of familiar figures: Al Gore
attacking George Bush as he tries to make sense of his
incomprehensible loss in the 2000 election, Tony Blair
struggling for votes in the midst of the Iraq
crisis.
In Reporting, Remnick returns to two
countries he knows well, Russia and Israel. His account of
Vladimir Putin contending with Gorbachev's legacy affords a
fresh view of postcommunist Russia; his appraisals of
Benjamin Netanyahu, Ariel Sharon, and Sari Nusseibeh of the
P.L.O. shed unexpected light on the Israeli-Palestinian
crisis. Often, Remnick's intent is to see someone up close,
if only for a moment in time: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as he
packs his bags to return to Russia, Vaclav Havel as he
prepares to end his career as President of the Czech
Republic.
Whether David Remnick is writing about
Katharine Graham and the state of American newspapers, the
literary visions of Philip Roth and Don DeLillo, or the
decline and fall of Mike Tyson and the sport of boxing, his
powers of observation, analysis, compassion, and wit are
always present. Reporting is confirmation of
Remnick's skill at writing insightful and influential
political and cultural narratives, and of his unique gift
for bringing his subjects to life on the page with
extraordinary clarity and depth.
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