In this brilliant collection of profiles, many of which first appeared in The New Yorker , the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin’s Tomb spotlights subjects that range from Mario Cuomo…

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker writes on some of the essential musicians of our time.

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A 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 more –

Bringing together reporting, profiles, memoir and criticism from The New Yorker to present a bold and complex portrait of black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and…

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

This fascinating anthology collects notable New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century-including work by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, and Muriel Spark-alongside…