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David Remnick has been the editor of The New Yorker since 1998. A staff writer for the magazine from 1992 to 1998, he was previously The Washington Post's correspondent in the Soviet Union. The author of several books, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the George Polk Award for his 1994 book Lenin's Tomb. He lives in New York with his wife and children.
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Secret Ingredients
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $18.00
A sample of the menu: Woody Allen on dieting the Dostoevski way • Roger Angell on the art of the martini • Don DeLillo on Jell-O • Malcolm Gladwell on building a better ketchup • Jane Kramer on the writer’s kitchen • Chang-rae Lee on eating sea urchin • Steve Martin... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $18.00
A sample of the menu: Woody Allen on dieting the Dostoevski way • Roger Angell on the art of the martini • Don DeLillo on Jell-O • Malcolm Gladwell on building a better ketchup • Jane Kramer on the writer’s kitchen • Chang-rae Lee on eating sea urchin • Steve Martin... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
hardcover.
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Disquiet, Please!
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $30.00
The 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. In fact, when Harold Ross founded the legendary magazine in 1925, he called it “a comic weekly,” and while it has grown into much... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $30.00
The 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. In fact, when Harold Ross founded the legendary magazine in 1925, he called it “a comic weekly,” and while it has grown into much... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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King of the World
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $15.95
"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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $15.95
"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... Read more >
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Secret Ingredients
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $30.00
Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker–literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M.F.K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition that is carried forward today by irrepressible literary gastronomes, including Calvin Trillin, Bill Buford, Adam Gopnik, Jane... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $30.00
Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker–literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M.F.K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition that is carried forward today by irrepressible literary gastronomes, including Calvin Trillin, Bill Buford, Adam Gopnik, Jane... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Fierce Pajamas
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: October 15, 2002
Price: $18.00
When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he called it a “comic weekly.” And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder’s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists in the modern era—among them Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: October 15, 2002
Price: $18.00
When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he called it a “comic weekly.” And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder’s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists in the modern era—among them Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker... Read more >
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abridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Lenin's Tomb
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: April 26, 1994
Price: $16.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: April 26, 1994
Price: $16.95
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... Read more >
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Wonderful Town
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2001
Price: $20.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2001
Price: $20.00
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... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Life Stories
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2001
Price: $17.00
One 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 the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorous and idiosyncratic figures of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2001
Price: $17.00
One 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 the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorous and idiosyncratic figures of... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Reporting
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $15.00
David Remnick is a writer with a rare gift for making readers understand the hearts and minds of our public figures. Whether it’s the decline and fall of Mike Tyson, Al Gore’s struggle to move forward after his loss in the 2000 election, or Vladimir Putin dealing with Gorbachev’s legacy, Remnick... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $15.00
David Remnick is a writer with a rare gift for making readers understand the hearts and minds of our public figures. Whether it’s the decline and fall of Mike Tyson, Al Gore’s struggle to move forward after his loss in the 2000 election, or Vladimir Putin dealing with Gorbachev’s legacy, Remnick... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Resurrection
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 26, 1998
Price: $16.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 26, 1998
Price: $16.00
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... Read more >
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The Fun of It
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2001
Price: $27.00
William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of years later, when E. B. White and James Thurber arrived, that the Talk of the Town story became what it is... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2001
Price: $27.00
William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of years later, when E. B. White and James Thurber arrived, that the Talk of the Town story became what it is... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Devil Problem
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 30, 1997
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 30, 1997
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
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The New Gilded Age
Format: Trade Paperback, 476 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2001
Price: $23.00
In keeping with its tradition of sending writers out into America to take the pulse of our citizens and civilization, The New Yorker over the past decade has reported on the unprecedented economy and how it has changed the ways in which we live. This new anthology collects the best of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 476 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2001
Price: $23.00
In keeping with its tradition of sending writers out into America to take the pulse of our citizens and civilization, The New Yorker over the past decade has reported on the unprecedented economy and how it has changed the ways in which we live. This new anthology collects the best of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Reporting
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $15.00
David Remnick is a writer with a rare gift for making readers understand the hearts and minds of our public figures. Whether it’s the decline and fall of Mike Tyson, Al Gore’s struggle to move forward after his loss in the 2000 election, or Vladimir Putin dealing with Gorbachev’s legacy, Remnick... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $15.00
David Remnick is a writer with a rare gift for making readers understand the hearts and minds of our public figures. Whether it’s the decline and fall of Mike Tyson, Al Gore’s struggle to move forward after his loss in the 2000 election, or Vladimir Putin dealing with Gorbachev’s legacy, Remnick... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Life Stories
Format: eBook, 624 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.00
One 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 the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorous and idiosyncratic figures of... Read more >
Format: eBook, 624 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.00
One 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 the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorous and idiosyncratic figures of... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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The Fun of It
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $27.00
William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of years later, when E. B. White and James Thurber arrived, that the Talk of the Town story became what it is... Read more >
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $27.00
William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of years later, when E. B. White and James Thurber arrived, that the Talk of the Town story became what it is... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Wonderful Town
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $20.00
New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the seventy-five-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its... Read more >
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $20.00
New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the seventy-five-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Fierce Pajamas
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $14.95
When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he described it as a “comic weekly.” And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder’s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists of the modern era—among them Robert Benchley, Dorothy... Read more >
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $14.95
When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he described it as a “comic weekly.” And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder’s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists of the modern era—among them Robert Benchley, Dorothy... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The New Gilded Age
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 1, 2001
Price: $23.00
In keeping with its tradition of sending writers out into America to take the pulse of our citizens and civilization, The New Yorker over the past decade has reported on the unprecedented economy and how it has changed the ways in which we live. This new anthology collects the best of... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 1, 2001
Price: $23.00
In keeping with its tradition of sending writers out into America to take the pulse of our citizens and civilization, The New Yorker over the past decade has reported on the unprecedented economy and how it has changed the ways in which we live. This new anthology collects the best of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Life Stories
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 29, 2000
Price: $14.95
One 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 the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorous and idiosyncratic figures of... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 29, 2000
Price: $14.95
One 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 the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorous and idiosyncratic figures of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Wonderful Town
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 7, 2000
Price: $14.95
New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the seventy-five-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its... Read more >
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 7, 2000
Price: $14.95
New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the seventy-five-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Secret Ingredients
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $14.98
Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker–literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M.F.K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition that is carried forward today by irrepressible literary gastronomes, including Calvin Trillin, Bill Buford, Adam Gopnik, Jane... Read more >
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $14.98
Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker–literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M.F.K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition that is carried forward today by irrepressible literary gastronomes, including Calvin Trillin, Bill Buford, Adam Gopnik, Jane... Read more >
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Disquiet, Please!
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $18.00
The 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 in this collection, by turns satirical and witty, misanthropic and menacing. From the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $18.00
The 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 in this collection, by turns satirical and witty, misanthropic and menacing. From the... Read more >
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