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David Remnick is a man much praised for his powers of observation, description and analysis, and Reporting contains his very best pieces from the last fifteen years. Here is Remnick on Don DeLillo, Philip Roth and The Sopranos; and here he is writing about Solzhenitsyn returning to Russia after nearly 20 years in exile, or on the failure of democracy in Mubarak's Egypt. Without doubt one of America's most gifted and widely read journalists, Remnick's style combines compassion, empathy, exuberance and humour, and in Reporting he brings the written word to life, describing the world with extraordinary vividness and exceptional depth. 'Remnick is a phenomenon. He has not only edited the magazine with serene efficiency for the past eight years; he has written for it a series of long, meticulously researched articles that have been gathered together in this hefty volume.
And they are all excellent' Daily Telegraph 'Always up close and personal, always tenacious and informed by deep background, and always vivid and veracious' The Times 'He has a strong, muscular unpretentious style and a restless curiosity that enables him to write as well about literature and politics as he does about boxing' New Statesman 'Pin-sharp, the whole thing, and really very engrossing indeed' William Leith, Sunday Telegraph

Review
“This collection of articles by David Remnick can stand as literature. . . . He treats the reader as an informed, intelligent equal.”
—“The New York Times Book Review”
“Each piece is worth reading. From the first word of the preface to the last word of the final feature story, ”Reporting “is captivating.”
—“The Dallas-Ft. Worth Star Telegram”
"A pleasure to read. The [essays] are intelligent and serious, but they're also perceptive and funny. Remnick mixes literature, politics and history and then tries to bring them all together into a meaningful whole."
—“Los Angeles Times”
“The arrangement of pieces is so natural, and so symphonic, it's hard to recollect their discrete appearances: It seems as though ”Reporting“ is less an amalgamation of individual articles than it is a previously serialized volume at long last published whole.”
—“The San Francisco Chronicle”

David Remnick has been the editor of the New Yorker since 1998. He was a staff writer for the magazine from 1992 to 1998 and, prior to that, the Washington Post's correspondent in the Soviet Union. He lives in New York City with his wife and children.