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Holding the Note
David Remnick
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‘Always up close and personal, always tenacious and informed by
deep background, and always vivid and veracious’ The Times -----
The greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing
‘Respect’ or Bob Dylan performing ‘Blind Willie McTell’,
have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a
time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In
Holding the Note, David Remnick writes about the lives and work of
some of the greatest musicians, songwriters, and performers of the
past fifty years. He portrays a series of musical lives – Leonard
Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen,
Patti Smith, and more – and their unique encounters with the
passing of that essential element of music: time. These are
intimate portraits of some of the greatest creative minds of our
time written with a lifetime’s passionate attachment to music
that has shaped us all.
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The January 6th Report (Paperback)
Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, David Remnick, Jamie Raskin
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A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in
America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi
Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more From the pages of the New
Yorker comes a bold and telling portrait of Black life in America,
with astonishing early work from Rebecca West's account of a
lynching trial and James Baldwin's 'Letter from a Region in My
Mind' (which later formed the basis of The Fire Next Time) to more
recent writing by Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Zadie Smith,
Hilton Als, Jamaica Kincaid, Malcolm Gladwell, Elizabeth Alexander,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Doreen St. Felix, Henry Louis Gates Jr.,
Kelefa Sanneh, and more. Reaching back across the last century, The
Matter of Black Lives includes a wide array of material from the
New Yorker archives ranging across essays, reported pieces,
profiles, criticism, and historical pieces. This book addresses
everything from the arts to civil rights, matters of justice, and
politics, and brings us up to the present day with accounts of what
Jelani Cobb calls "The American Spring." The result is a startling,
nuanced and, ultimately, indelible portrait of America's complex
relationship with race.
A classic collection of the New Yorker's most urgent and
groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate
emergency In 1989, just one year after climatologist James Hansen
first came before a Senate committee and testified that the earth
was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded history, thanks to
humankind's heedless consumption of fossil fuels, New Yorker writer
Bill McKibben published a deeply reported and considered piece on
climate change and what it could mean for the planet. At the time,
the piece was to some speculative to the point of alarmist; read
now, McKibben's work is heroically prescient. Since then, the New
Yorker has devoted enormous attention to climate change, describing
the causes of the crisis, the political and ecological conditions
we now find ourselves in, and the scenarios and solutions we face.
The Fragile Earth tells the story of climate change - its past,
present, and future - taking readers from Greenland to the Great
Plains, and into both laboratories and rain forests. It features
some of the best writing on global warming from the last three
decades, including Bill McKibben's seminal essay 'The End of
Nature,' the first piece to popularize both the science and
politics of climate change for a general audience, and the Pulitzer
Prize-winning work of Elizabeth Kolbert, as well as Kathryn Schulz,
Dexter Filkins, Jonathan Franzen, Ian Frazier, Eric Klinenberg, and
others. The result, in its range, depth, and passion, promises to
bring light, and sometimes heat, to the great emergency of our age.
New York City is not only The New Yorker's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood; it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town collects superb short fiction by many of the magazine's and this country's most accomplished writers. Like all good fiction, these stories take particular places, particular people, and particular events and turn them into dramas of universal enlightenment and emotional impact. Here New York is every great place and every ordinary place. Each life in it, and each life in Wonderful Town, is the life of us all.
With an introduction by Salman Rushdie and an afterword by the
author. It was the night of February 25, 1964. A cloud of cigar
smoke drifted through the ring lights. Cassius Clay threw punches
into the gray floating haze and waited for the bell. When Cassius
Clay burst onto the sports scene in the 1950s, he broke the mould.
He changed the world of sports and went on to change the world
itself: from his early fights as Cassius Clay, the young, wiry man
from Louisville, unwilling to play the noble and grateful warrior
in a white world, to becoming Muhammad Ali, the voice of black
America and the most recognized face on the planet. King of the
World is the story of an incredible rise to power, a book of
battles fought inside the ring and out. With grace and power,
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Remnick tells of a transcendent
athlete and entertainer, a rapper before rap was born. Ali was a
mirror of his era, a dynamic figure in the racial and cultural
clashes of his time and King of the World is a classic piece of
non-fiction and a book worthy of America's most dynamic modern
hero.
A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in
America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi
Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more From the pages of the New
Yorker comes a bold and telling portrait of Black life in America,
with astonishing early work from Rebecca West's account of a
lynching trial and James Baldwin's 'Letter from a Region in My
Mind' (which later formed the basis of The Fire Next Time) to more
recent writing by Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Zadie Smith,
Hilton Als, Jamaica Kincaid, Malcolm Gladwell, Elizabeth Alexander,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Doreen St. Felix, Henry Louis Gates Jr.,
Kelefa Sanneh, and more. Reaching back across the last century, The
Matter of Black Lives includes a wide array of material from the
New Yorker archives ranging across essays, reported pieces,
profiles, criticism, and historical pieces. This book addresses
everything from the arts to civil rights, matters of justice, and
politics, and brings us up to the present day with accounts of what
Jelani Cobb calls "The American Spring." The result is a startling,
nuanced and, ultimately, indelible portrait of America's complex
relationship with race.
The definitive collection of artist profiles by legendary journalist and New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins, from the 1960s to today
When Calvin Tomkins joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1960, he did not plan to make art and living artists his main subjects. And yet, auspiciously for the magazine and its readers, Tomkins did just that. For the last six decades, his profiles of contemporary artists, from Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg to Cindy Sherman and Mark Bradford, have become the liveliest and most authoritative guide to the art of our time. These six volumes contain eighty-two of Tomkins’s profiles, from 1962 to 2019. Balancing insight and observation with wit, candor, and appreciation, Tomkins is a master of the profile―his indelible prose forming fascinating portraits, each a work of art in its own right.
In this nuanced and complex portrait of Barack Obama, Pulitzer
Prize-winner David Remnick offers a thorough, intricate, and
riveting account of the unique experiences that shaped our nation's
first African American president.
Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and
teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama
himself, Remnick explores the elite institutions that first exposed
Obama to social tensions, and the intellectual currents that
contributed to his identity. Using America's racial history as a
backdrop for Obama's own story, Remnick further reveals how an
initially rootless and confused young man built on the experiences
of an earlier generation of black leaders to become one of the
central figures of our time.
Masterfully written and eminently readable, "The Bridge" is
destined to be a lasting and illuminating work for years to come,
by a writer with an unparalleled gift for revealing the historical
significance of our present moment.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Remnick chronicles the new Russia that emerged from the ash heap of the Soviet Union. From the siege of Parliament to the farcically tilted elections of 1996, from the rubble of Grozny to the grandiose wealth and naked corruption of today's Moscow, Remnick chronicles a society so racked by change that its citizens must daily ask themselves who they are, where they belong, and what they believe in. Remnick composes this panorama out of dozens of finely realized individual portraits. Here is Mikhail Gorbachev, his head still swimming from his plunge from reverence to ridicule. Here is Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the half-Jewish anti-Semite who conducts politics as loony performance art. And here is Boris Yeltsin, the tottering populist who is not above stealing elections. In Resurrection, they become the players in a drama so vast and moving that it deserves comparison with the best reportage of George Orwell and Michael Herr.
"This is what happens when a good writer unleashes eye and ear on a story that moves with the speed of light. Resurrection has the feel of describing vast, historical change even as it is happening."--Chicago Tribune
This second volume of The John McPhee Reader includes material from his eleven books published since 1975, including Coming into the Country, Looking for a Ship, The Control of Nature, and the four books on geology that comprise Annals of the Former World.
In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this bestselling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. "A moving illumination . . . Remnick is the witness for us all."--Wall Street Journal.
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The 60s: The Story of a Decade (Paperback)
The New Yorker Magazine; Edited by Henry Finder; Introduction by David Remnick; Contributions by Renata Adler, Hannah Arendt
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"Succeeds 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 . . . reveal[s] details that even close followers of [Ali] might not have known. . . . An amazing story." --The New York Times
On the night in 1964 that Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) stepped into the ring with Sonny Liston, he was widely regarded as an irritating freak who danced and talked way too much. Six rounds later Ali was not only the new world heavyweight boxing champion: He was "a new kind of black man" who would shortly transform America's racial politics, its popular culture, and its notions of heroism. No one has captured Ali--and the era that he exhilarated and sometimes infuriated--with greater vibrancy, drama, and astuteness than David Remnick, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb (and editor of The New Yorker). In charting Ali's rise from the gyms of Louisville, Kentucky, to his epochal fights against Liston and Floyd Patterson, Remnick creates a canvas of unparalleled richness. He gives us empathetic portraits of wisecracking sportswriters and bone-breaking mobsters; of the baleful Liston and the haunted Patterson; of an audacious Norman Mailer and an enigmatic Malcolm X. Most of all, King of the World does justice to the speed, grace, courage, humor, and ebullience of one of the greatest athletes and irresistibly dynamic personalities of our time.
"Nearly pulse-pounding narrative power . . . an important account of a period in American social history." --Chicago Tribune
"A pleasure . . . haunting . . . so vivid that one can imagine Ali saying, 'How'd you get inside my head, boy?'" --Wilfrid Sheed, Time
A classic collection of the New Yorker’s most urgent and
groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate
emergency In 1989, just one year after climatologist James Hansen
first came before a Senate committee and testified that the earth
was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded history, thanks to
humankind’s heedless consumption of fossil fuels, New Yorker
writer Bill McKibben published a deeply reported and considered
piece on climate change and what it could mean for the planet. At
the time, the piece was to some speculative to the point of
alarmist; read now, McKibben’s work is heroically prescient.
Since then, the New Yorker has devoted enormous attention to
climate change, describing the causes of the crisis, the political
and ecological conditions we now find ourselves in, and the
scenarios and solutions we face. The Fragile Earth tells the story
of climate change – its past, present, and future – taking
readers from Greenland to the Great Plains, and into both
laboratories and rain forests. It features some of the best writing
on global warming from the last three decades, including Bill
McKibben’s seminal essay ‘The End of Nature,’ the first piece
to popularize both the science and politics of climate change for a
general audience, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning work of Elizabeth
Kolbert, as well as Kathryn Schulz, Dexter Filkins, Jonathan
Franzen, Ian Frazier, Eric Klinenberg, and others. The result, in
its range, depth, and passion, promises to bring light, and
sometimes heat, to the great emergency of our age.
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The 50s: The Story of a Decade (Paperback)
The New Yorker Magazine; Edited by Henry Finder; Introduction by David Remnick; Contributions by Elizabeth Bishop, Truman Capote
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The 50s: The Story of a Decade (Hardcover)
The New Yorker Magazine; Edited by Henry Finder; Introduction by David Remnick; Contributions by Elizabeth Bishop, Truman Capote
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The 40s: The Story of a Decade (Paperback)
The New Yorker Magazine; Edited by Henry Finder; Introduction by David Remnick; Contributions by W.H Auden, Elizabeth Bishop
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Readers 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, Remnick's gift for character
is sharper than ever, whether he writes about Gary Hart stumbling
through life after Donna Rice or Mario Cuomo, who now presides over
a Saturday morning radio talk show, fielding questions from
crackpots, or about Michael Jordan's awesome return to the Chicago
Bulls -- or Reggie Jackson's last times at bat.
Remnick's portraits of such disparate characters as Alger Hiss and
Ralph Ellison, Richard Nixon and Elaine Pagels, Gerry Adams and
Marion Barry are unified by this extraordinary ability to create a
living character, so that the pieces in this book, taken together,
constitute a splendid pageant of the representative characters of
our time.
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