More than a book, this is a bona fide publishing event. The largest-ever collection of "New Yorker cartoons features the best of every decade in book form, plus two easy-to-browse CDs--Windows and Macintosh compatible--with every cartoon ever published in the magazine--more than 68,000 of them! Since its founding in the 1920s, "The New Yorker has ...
In this indispensable collection, "The New Yorker" dishes up a feast of delicious food writing--food and drink memoirs, short stories, and poems, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons.
The witty selections presented here are culled from throughout the history of The New Yorker, including work by Groucho Marx, Robert Benchley, James Thurber, Ian Frazier, and Christopher Buckley. The work is chronologically organized within thematic sections.
A collection of The New Yorker's famous "Profiles" of people such as Hemingway, Hearst, Baryshnikov, and other less well-known personalities. Writers include many of the magazine's finest: John McPhee, Calvin Trillin, A.J. Liebling, Truman Capote, and Lillian Ross.
This work is a narrative of the most momentous event in the post-war world - the end of communism and the subsequent break-up of the Soviet Union. Seen, in some aspects, as a battle between good (personified by Sakharer) and evil (in the form of the Communist Party), the author breathes life into Gorbachev and Yeltsin who are seen as Carylean ...
An uproarious sampling of "The New Yorker's" funny writings can be found in this hilarious new collection, one as satirical and witty, misanthropic and menacing as the first, "Fierce Pajamas."
New Yorker editor David Remnick introduces this collection of the writing of A.J. Liebling, who wrote for the magazine from 1935 until his death in 1963. Liebling produced a collection of articles on a variety of subjects, including biographical profiles of boxers, vividly evocative memoirs of life in France during World War II (including some of ...
Remnick compares Muhammad Ali to previous champions Patterson and Liston, and shows how Ali the man, made himself a champion and a symbol. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
Founded in 1925 as a humor magazine under the editorial genius of Harold Ross, The New Yorker magazine quickly became one of the most popular and literate publications in America. THE COMPLETE NEW YORKER presents the entire run from 1925 through February, 2005--every issue from cover to cover, in sequence, on 8 DVDs, with all the cartoons, fiction ...
For 75 years The New Yorker was one of the premier venues for short fiction, and this anthology demonstrates the variety of work that appeared in its pages during its first three-fourths of a century. Included are stories about New York City by Dorothy Parker, Peter Taylor, John Cheever, Vladimir Nabokov, E. B. White, Tama Janowitz, and over 30 ...
Remnick compares Muhammad Ali to previous champions Patterson and Liston, and shows how Ali the man, made himself a champion and a symbol. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
This wonderfully entertaining collection of 110 of the very best cartoons of business and finance, culled from 75 years of "The New Yorker", features classics from George Booth, Charles Addams, Lee Lorenz, Peter Arno, and many others.
From the editor of "The New Yorker" and author of Pulitzer Prize-winning "Lenin's Tomb" comes a collection of his "New Yorker" profiles from the last 15 years.
Remnick pulls together some choice articles from the New Yorker which, under his tutelage, have explored the high-stakes, high-tech, big-money, young-greed era that has blossomed in the past five years. The collection, including profiles of big names and exposes of the newly rich, gives a complete picture of the economic atmosphere from the late ...
An account of the rebuilding of Russia following the ousting of Mikhail Gorbachev, which continues on from the author's previous book, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire.
A portrait of post-Communist Russia, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of LENIN'S TOMB. Beginning with the siege of Parliament that took place during the abortive coup of 1991, Remnick describes the stunningly rapid process by which Communist control of Russian society and politics collapsed, and the long and painful struggle to find an ...
The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) presents this treasury of great magazine pieces drawn from the winners of and finalists for the prestigious National Magazine Awards.
The witty selections presented here are culled from throughout the history of The New Yorker, including work by Groucho Marx, Robert Benchley, James Thurber, Ian Frazier, and Christopher Buckley. The work is chronologically organized within thematic sections.
Almost each week, Martin Schoeller is called upon by The New Yorker magazine to capture portraits of the most recognized personalities of our time (President Bill Clinton, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Norman Mailer, Jack Nicholson and many others). Over 100 of these stunning headshot portraits are collected here in a monograph ...
A collection of essays that illustrates the author's talents as a portraitist through his profiles of a wide range of contemporary political and literary figures.
A collection of The New Yorker's famous "Profiles" of people such as Hemingway, Hearst, Baryshnikov, and other less well-known personalities. Writers include many of the magazine's finest: John McPhee, Calvin Trillin, A.J. Liebling, Truman Capote, and Lillian Ross.
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 ...
Almost each week, Martin Schoeller is called upon by The New Yorker magazine to capture portraits of the most recognized personalities of our time (President Bill Clinton, Angelina Jolie, Andre Agassi, Eminem, Jack Nicholson and many others). 75 of these stunning headshot portraits are collected here in a monograph that tracks the evolution of his ...
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