Author(s): David Remnick

Politics

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. First published 2006.