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  • Lenin's Tomb

    The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by David Remnick ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeOne of the Best Books of the Year: The New York TimesFrom the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. Lenin’s Tomb combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. Remnick takes us through the tumultuous 75-year period of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Matter of Black Lives

    Writing from The New Yorker

    Edited by Jelani Cobb, David Remnick ...
    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—with a foreword by Jelani CobbThis anthology from the pages of the New Yorker provides a bold and complex portrait of Black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies, political vision ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bridge

    The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

    by David Remnick ...
    National BestsellerIn 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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • King of the World

    Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero

    by David Remnick ...
    The bestselling biography of Muhammad Ali--with an Introduction by Salman RushdieOn 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 ... Read more

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  • Up in the Old Hotel

    by Joseph Mitchell, David Remnick ...
    Saloon-keepers and street preachers, gypsies and steel-walking Mohawks, a bearded lady and a 93-year-old “seafoodetarian” who believes his specialized diet will keep him alive for another two decades. These are among the people that Joseph Mitchell immortalized in his reportage for The New Yorker and in four books—McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr. Flood, The Bottom of the Harbor, and Joe Gould ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Devil Problem

    And Other True Stories

    by David Remnick ...
    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 ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Holding the Note

    Profiles in Popular Music

    by David Remnick ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker gathers his writing on some of the essential musicians of our time—intimate portraits of Leonard Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, and more.The greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing “Respect” or Bob Dylan performing “Blind Willie ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Disquiet, Please!

    More Humor Writing from The New Yorker

    Edited by David Remnick, Henry Finder ...
    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 more**,** it has also remained true to its original mission. Now an uproarious sampling of its ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons

    A Semi-serious A-to-Z Archive

    Edited by Bob Mankoff ...
    This monumental, two-volume, slip-cased collection includes nearly 10 decades worth of New Yorker cartoons selected and organized by subject with insightful commentary by Bob Mankoff and a foreword by David Remnick.The is the most ingenious collection of New Yorker cartoons published in book form, The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons is a prodigious, slip-cased, two-volume, 1,600-page A-to-Z ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The January 6th Report

    by Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, David Remnick, Jamie Raskin ...
    **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**NOTE:The January 6th Report appendices on pages 693–716 can be accessed via the QR code below, along with the hyperlinks from the chapter endnotes and witness testimony transcripts.Celadon Books and The New Yorker present the report by the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan 6 Attack on the United States Capitol.<... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The 40s: The Story of a Decade

    by The New Yorker Magazine, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop ...
    Series series New Yorker: The Story of a Decade
    This captivating anthology gathers historic New Yorker pieces from a decade of trauma and upheaval—as well as the years when The New Yorker came of age, with pieces by Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Joseph Mitchell, Vladimir Nabokov, and George Orwell, alongside original reflections on the 1940s by some of today’s finest writers.In this enthralling book, contributions from the great writers ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Fragile Earth

    Writing from The New Yorker on Climate Change

    by Elizabeth Kolbert ...
    A New York Times New & Noteworthy BookOne of the Daily Beast's 5 Essential Books to Read Before the ElectionA collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of climate change—including writing from Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ian Frazier, Kathryn Schulz, and moreJust one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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