Edited by The New Yorker's much-loved Adam Gopnik, this year's Best American Essays includes contributions by such writers as Albert Goldbarth, Anthony Lane, Louis Menand, and Ander Monson.
Edited by The New Yorker's much-loved Adam Gopnik, this year's Best American Essays includes contributions by such writers as Albert Goldbarth, Anthon...
In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin coauthored our sense of history and our understanding of man's place in the world. Here Gopnik reveals these two men as they really were: family men and social climbers, ambitious manipulators and courageous adventurers, grieving parents and brilliant scholars. Above all we see them as thinkers and writers, making and witnessing the great changes in thought that mark truly modern...
In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on the sa...
These sixty satirical, rollicking, uproarious tales by the greatest yarn-spinner in our literary history are as fresh and vivid as ever more than a century after their author s death. Mark Twain s famous novels "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn" have long been hailed as major achievements, but the father of American literature also made his mark as a master of the humorous short story. All the tales he wrote over the course of his lengthy career are gathered here, including such immortal classics as The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," The...
These sixty satirical, rollicking, uproarious tales by the greatest yarn-spinner in our literary history are as fresh and vivid as ever more than a...
In Paris France (1940)--published here with a new introduction from Adam Gopnik--Stein unites her childhood memories of Paris with her observations about everything from art and war to love and cooking. The result is an unforgettable glimpse into a bygone era, one on the brink of revolutionary change.
In Paris France (1940)--published here with a new introduction from Adam Gopnik--Stein unites her childhood memories of Paris with her obs...
An impassioned defense of the freedom of speech, from Stephane Charbonnier, a journalist murdered for his convictions On January 7, 2015, two gunmen stormed the offices of the French satirical newspaper "Charlie Hebdo." They took the lives of twelve men and women, but they called for one man by name: "Charb." Known by his pen name, Stephane Charbonnier was editor in chief of "Charlie Hebdo, " an outspoken critic of religious fundamentalism, and a renowned political cartoonist in his own right. In the past, he had received death threats and had even earned a place on Al Qaeda's "Most...
An impassioned defense of the freedom of speech, from Stephane Charbonnier, a journalist murdered for his convictions On January 7, 2015, two gunm...
