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 brings his subjects to life with extraordinary clarity and depth. In Reporting, he gives us his best writing from the past fifteen years, ranging from American politics and culture to post-Soviet Russia to the Middle East conflict; from Tony Blair grappling with Iraq, to Philip Roth making sense of America's past, to the rise of Hamas in Palestine. Both intimate and deeply informed by history, Reporting is an exciting and panoramic portrait of our times.
Preface
I.
The Wildnerness Campaign: Al Gore
Mrs. Graham
The Masochism Campaign: Tony Blair
High Water
II.
Into the Clear: Philip Roth
No Longer, Not Yet: Don DeLillo
Exit the Castle: Václav Havel
The Exile: Solzhenitsyn in Vermont
III.
Deep in the Woods: Solzhenitsyn in Moscow
The Last Tsar
The Translations Wars
Post-Imperial Blues: Vladimir Putin
IV.
The Afterlife: Natan Sharansky
The Outsiders: Benjamin Netanyahu
Rage and Reason: Sari Nusseibeh and the PLO
The Spirit Level: Amos Oz
After Arafat
V.
Kid Dynamite Blows Up: Mike Tyson
Cornerman: Teddy Atlas
Comeback: Larry Holmes
The Moralist: Lennox Lewis
Tyson’s Corner
Acknowledgments
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. Mr. Remnick served as an Olympic Correspondent and Commentator for NBC during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.He lives in New York with his wife and children.