Reporting: Writings from the New Yorker

David Remnick is a man much praised for his powers of observation, description and analysis, and "Reporting" contains his very best pieces from the last fifteen years - so here is Remnick on Don DeLillo and Philip Roth, A. J. Liebling and The Sopranos; here is Remnick writing about Solzhenitsyn returning to Russia after nearly 20 years in exile, about Vaclav Havel stepping down after 13 years as the president of Czechoslovakia; here is Remnick's take on the reign of Vladimir Putin, on the failure of democracy in Mubarak's Egypt; Remnick on Katharine Graham and Mike Tyson, on Benjamin Netanyahu, and New Jersey Mob families. Without doubt one of America's most gifted and widely read journalists, Remnick's style combines compassion, empathy, exuberance and humour, and in "Reporting" he brings the written word to life, describing the world with extraordinary vividness and exceptional depth.

Table of Contents:
Section - i: Preface Unit - i: Part I Chapter - 1: The Wilderness Campaign: Al Gore Chapter - 2: Mrs. Graham Chapter - 3: The Masochism Campaign: Tony Blair Chapter - 4: High Water Unit - ii: Part II Chapter - 5: Into the Clear: Philip Roth Chapter - 6: No Longer, Not Yet: Don DeLillo Chapter - 7: Exit the Castle: Václav Havel Chapter - 8: The Exile: Solzhenitsyn in Vermont Unit - iii: Part III Chapter - 9: Deep in the Woods: Solzhenitsyn in Moscow Chapter - 10: The Last Tsar Chapter - 11: The Translation Wars Chapter - 12: Post-Imperial Blues: Vladimir Putin Unit - iv: Part IV Chapter - 13: The Afterlife: Natan Sharansky Chapter - 14: The Outsider: Benjamin Netanyahu Chapter - 15: Rage and Reason: Sari Nusseibeh and the PLO Chapter - 16: The Spirit Level: Amos Oz Chapter - 17: After Arafat Chapter - 18: The Democracy Game: Hamas Comes to Power in Palestine Unit - v: Part V Chapter - 19: Kid Dynamite Blows Up: Mike Tyson Chapter - 20: Cornerman: Teddy Atlas Chapter - 21: Comeback: Larry Holmes Chapter - 22: The Moralist: Lennox Lewis Chapter - 23: Tyson’s Corner Acknowledgements - ii: Acknowledgments

About the Author :
David Remnick has been the editor of The New Yorker since 1998. He was a staff writer for the magazine from 1992 to 1998 and, previous to that, the Washington Post’s correspondent in the Soviet Union. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. He is the author of seven books, including Holding the Note, King of the World, a biography of Muhammad Ali, and The Bridge, a biography of Barack Obama. He lives in New York City with his wife and children.

Review :
"This collection of articles by David Remnick can stand as literature. . . . He treats the reader as an informed, intelligent equal."
--"The New York Times Book Review"
"Each piece is worth reading. From the first word of the preface to the last word of the final feature story, "Reporting "is captivating."
--"The Dallas-Ft. Worth Star Telegram"
"A pleasure to read. The [essays] are intelligent and serious, but they're also perceptive and funny. Remnick mixes literature, politics and history and then tries to bring them all together into a meaningful whole."
--"Los Angeles Times"
"The arrangement of pieces is so natural, and so symphonic, it's hard to recollect their discrete appearances: It seems as though "Reporting" is less an amalgamation of individual articles than it is a previously serialized volume at long last published whole."
--"The San Francisco Chronicle" " This collection of articles by David Remnick can stand as literature. . . . He treats the reader as an informed, intelligent equal."
-- "The New York Times Book Review"
" Each piece is worth reading. From the first word of the preface to the last word of the final feature story, "Reporting "is captivating."
-- "The Dallas-Ft. Worth Star Telegram"
" A pleasure to read. The [essays] are intelligent and serious, but they're also perceptive and funny. Remnick mixes literature, politics and history and then tries to bring them all together into a meaningful whole."
-- "Los Angeles Times"
" The arrangement of pieces is so natural, and so symphonic, it's hard to recollect their discrete appearances: It seems as though "Reporting" is less an amalgamation of individual articles than it is a previously serialized volume at long last published whole."
-- "The San Francisco Chronicle"