Life Stories: Profiles from The New Y...
David RemnickOne of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker has met this challenge more successfully and more originally than any other modern American journal. It has indelibly shaped the genre known as th...
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Bara...
David RemnickNo story has been more central to America's history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book thatfully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obama's life or e...
Disquiet, Please!: More Humor Writing...
David RemnickThe New Yorker is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years it's also been a hoot. Now an uproarious sampling of its funny writings can be found i...
King of the World: Muhammed Ali and t...
David RemnickSucceeds more than any previous book in bringing Ali into focus . . . as a starburst of energy, ego and ability whose like will never be seen again.'--The Wall Street Journal'Best Nonfiction Book of the Year'--Time'Penetrating . . . r...
The Devil Problem: And Other True Sto...
David RemnickReaders know from his now classic Lenin's Tomb that Remnick is a superb portraitist who can bring his subjects to life and reveal them in such surprising ways as to justify comparison to Dickens, Balzac, or Proust. In this collection,...