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Annals of PoliticsDavid Remnick
Is Sex Necessary?

Annals of Politics: Gary Hart in ExileDavid Remnick
His failed candidacies helped make Bill Clinton's victory possible, but the former Sena...

Annals of Politics: The SituationistDavid Remnick
Marion Barry, the once disgraced former mayor of Washington, rises again, and the divid...

The Back PageDavid Remnick and David Levine

The Back PageDavid Remnick and Frank Cotham

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Books: Autumn of the Patriarch (Review) David Remnick
The Struggle for Russia, by Boris Yeltsin
- The Struggle for Russia by Boris Yeltsin

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Books: Dumb Luck: Bush's Cold War (Review) David Remnick
At the Highest Levels, by Michael R. Beschloss and Strobe Talbott
- At the Highest Levels by Michael R. Beschloss and Strobe Talbott

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Books: Fleeing Bliss (Review) David Remnick
Mrs. Ted Bliss, by Stanley Elkin
- Mrs. Ted Bliss by Stanley Elkin

The Bridge (2010)David Remnick
The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
2 Reviews, 1 Readable

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Brithday Boy (3 Reviews) David Remnick
Down the Highway, by Howard Sounes
- Down the Highway by Howard Sounes
- Song and Dance Man III by Michael Gray
- Positively 4th Street by David Hajdu



CommentDavid Remnick
Bad News

CommentDavid Remnick
Decline and Fall

Comment: Closing the BooksDavid Remnick
On Thomas vs. Hill, two accounts yield a single conclusion

Comment: Hock TooeyDavid Remnick
Sportsmanship takes another one in the face

Comment: Infamous VictoryDavid Remnick
To win his Chenchen war, Boris Yeltsin had to defeat himself


Comment: Room 315David Remnick
A century of open books and open minds at the library

Comment: Scenes from a ScandalDavid Remnick
The things we never learned from Watergate

Comment: The GamblersDavid Remnick
In Russia, an election puts (quasi) democracy at risk

Comment: Therapy NationDavid Remnick
Marion Barry and Bob Dole let it all hang out

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The Communist Party Cut-Up (Review) David Remnick
Against the Grain: An Autobiography, by Boris Yeltsin
- Against the Grain: An Autobiography by Boris Yeltsin

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The Counterrevolutionary (Review) David Remnick
Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin, by Yegor K. Ligachev
- Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin by Yegor K. Ligachev

A Critic At LargeDavid Remnick
Alfred Kazin

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Dead Souls (12 Reviews) David Remnick
Katyn, by Allen Paul
- Katyn by Allen Paul
- The August Coup by Mikhail Gorbachev
- Gorbachev by Gerd Ruge
- Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin by Yegor K. Ligachev
- The Future Belongs to Freedom by Eduard Shevardnadze
- I Hope by Raisa Gorbachev
- Raisa by Urda Jurgens
- The Second Russian Revolution by Angus Roxburgh
- For a New Russia by Anatoly Sobchak
- Khrushchev on Khrushchev by Sergei Khrushchev
- Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament by Nikita S. Khrushchev, Edward Crankshaw, and Strobe Talbott, ...
- Moscow Circles by Benedict Erofeev

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Defending the Faith (3 Reviews) David Remnick
Reflections on Russia, by Dmitri S. Likhachev and Nicolai N. Petro
- Reflections on Russia by Dmitri S. Likhachev and Nicolai N. Petro
- Glasnost by Helena Goscilo and Byron Lindsey
- Sleepwalker in a Fog by Tatyana Tolstaya

Dept. of Disputation: ScoopDavid Remnick
The Washington press is progressively less deep and more cynical, and everybody's a critic


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Dons of the Don (Review) David Remnick
The Soviet Mafia, by Arkady Vaksberg
- The Soviet Mafia by Arkady Vaksberg

The Critics
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The First and the Last (2 Reviews) David Remnick
Memoirs, by Mikhail Gorbachev
- Memoirs by Mikhail Gorbachev
- The Unknown Lenin by Richard Pipes, David Brandenberger, and Vladimir I. Lenin, ...

The Critics
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Fool Britannia (Review) David Remnick
Treason in the Blood, by Anthony Cave Brown
- Treason in the Blood by Anthony Cave Brown

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Getting Russia Right (Review) David Remnick
The Soviet Tragedy, by Martin E. Malia
- The Soviet Tragedy by Martin E. Malia


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How Russia Is Ruled (2 Reviews) David Remnick
Boris Yeltsin, by Aleksandr Korzhakov
- Boris Yeltsin by Aleksandr Korzhakov
- The Russian Intelligentsia by Andrei Sinyavsky


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Invitation to a Beheading (Review) David Remnick
Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy, by Dmitri Volkogonov
- Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy by Dmitri Volkogonov

King of the World (1998)David Remnick
Muhammed Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
3 Reviews

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Last Frontier (Review) David Remnick
Big Trouble, by J. Anthony Lukas
- Big Trouble by J. Anthony Lukas

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Laughter in the Dark (Review) David Remnick
At His Side, by A.N. Pirozhkova
- At His Side by A.N. Pirozhkova

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Le Carre's New War (Review) David Remnick
The Night Manager, by John le Carre
- The Night Manager by John le Carre

Lenin's Tomb (1993)David Remnick
The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
11 Reviews

Letter from AtlantaDavid Remnick
Inside-Out Olympics

Letter from CairoDavid Remnick
Going Nowhere

Letter from Chechnya: In Stalin's WakeDavid Remnick
Tens of thousands of people have died in a political gamble first risked by the czars a...

Letter from IstanbulDavid Remnick
The Experiment

Letter from JerusalemDavid Remnick
The Afterlife

Letter From JerusalemDavid Remnick
The Outsider

Letter from JerusalemDavid Remnick
The Dreamer

Letter from JerusalemDavid Remnick
Rage and Reason

Letter from JerusalemDavid Remnick
The Apostate


Letter from LondonDavid Remnick
The Masochism Campaign

Letter from LouisianaDavid Remnick
High Water


Letter from MoscowDavid Remnick
The Tycoon and the Kremlin

Letter from MoscowDavid Remnick
The Black Box

Letter from MoscowDavid Remnick
Deep in the Woods

Letter from MoscowDavid Remnick
Post-Imperial Blues

Letter from MoscowDavid Remnick
The Tsar's Opponent

Letter from MoscowDavid Remnick
Echo in the Dark

Letter from Moscow: Exit the SaintsDavid Remnick
Once, Russia's writers were the conscience of their country. Now they are finally free ...

Letter from Moscow: The HangoverDavid Remnick
Boris Yeltsin is walking a line between creating a democracy and becoming an autocrat

Letter from Moscow: The Tycoon and the KremlinDavid Remnick
Russia's Citizen Kane and Boris Yeltsin's Rasputin are feuding

Letter from Moscow: Yeltsin's TightropeDavid Remnick
Russians cast their vote for the future with Boris Yeltsin, but the past is still a dan...

Letter from PragueDavid Remnick
Exit Havel

Letter from Russia: Gorbachev's Last HurrahDavid Remnick
Mikhail Gorbachev is a relic and the Communists lead in the polls. How could glasnost h...

Letter from Russia: The War for the KremlinDavid Remnick
How Boris Yeltsin really won the elections

Letter from St. PetersburgDavid Remnick
The Next Tsar

Letter from the West BankDavid Remnick
The Democracy Game

Letter from Vatican City: The Pope in CrisisDavid Remnick
John Paul II cannot hide his physical decline, but he refuses to relinquish his vision ...

LettersIan Patterson, Christopher Hitchens, and David Remnick, ...

Life and LettersDavid Remnick
Reporting It All

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Life and Letters: Citizen Kay (Review) David Remnick
After a very politic career spent running the Washington Post, Katharine Graham has cho...
- Personal History by Katharine Graham

Life and Letters: Last of the Red HotsDavid Remnick
The Washington Post's Ben Bradlee took a sleepy newspaper that nobody ever worried abou...

Life and Letters: Perfect PitchDavid Remnick
Once Russia ceased to be a country for Joseph Brodsky, it became words

Life and Letters: Visible ManDavid Remnick
While Ralph Ellison, now eighty, is still working on his second novel, his early writin...


The Next Magic KingdomDavid Remnick
Future Perfect

Nights of the Opera: The Last Italian TenorDavid Remnick
Luciano Pavarotti, who performs next week in Central Park, remains---despite the critic...

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Notes From Underground (Review) David Remnick
The Ransom of Russian Art, by John McPhee
- The Ransom of Russian Art by John McPhee

On Murray KemptonElizabeth Hardwick and David Remnick

Onward and Upward With the ArsDavid Remnick
Is This the End of Rico?

Onward and Upward with the ArtsDavid Remnick
The Imperial Stagehand

Onward and Upward With the ArtsDavid Remnick
The Translation Wars

Our Local Correspondents: News in a Dying LanguageDavid Remnick
In Yiddish or in English, the Forward stands as a model for newspaper publishers in sea...

Our Local Correspondents: Waiting for the ApocalypseDavid Remnick
A tragedy of race and messianic faith in Crown Heights

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Political Booknotes (Review) David Remnick
Funny Money, by Mark Singer
- Funny Money by Mark Singer

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Political Booknotes (Review) David Remnick
Mailer: His Life and Times, by Peter Manso
- Mailer: His Life and Times by Peter Manso

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Political Booknotes (Review) David Remnick
The Staffs of Life, by Ely Jacques Kahn
- The Staffs of Life by Ely Jacques Kahn

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Political Porn (2 Reviews) David Remnick
Unlimited Access, by Gary Aldrich
- Unlimited Access by Gary Aldrich
- Sleeping with the President by Gennifer Flowers

The Political SceneDavid Remnick
Negative Capability


PostscriptRichard Avedon and David Remnick
Allen Ginsberg

Postscript: Joseph HellerRichard Merkin and David Remnick

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Potomac Pulp (3 Reviews) David Remnick
The China Card, by John Ehrlichman
- The China Card by John Ehrlichman
- The White House Mess by Christopher Buckley
- "Q" Clearance by Peter Benchley


Profile: Prince of the CityDavid Remnick
As New York's tabloid war rages, pimps and Presidents agree that the columnist Murray K...

Profile: The Accidental AnarchistDavid Remnick
His bad taste and unruly id have invaded radio, television, bookshelves, and now the bi...

Profile: The Exile ReturnsDavid Remnick
The Soviets banished Alekandr Solzhenitsyn, and the West often prefered to ignore his u...

Profiles: Dr. Wilson's NeighborhoodDavid Remnick
William Julius Wilson is about to shake up the debate over race and class again, and a ...

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Profiles: Into the Clear (Review) David Remnick
The Human Stain, by Philip Roth
- The Human Stain by Philip Roth

Profiles: The OlympianDavid Remnick
The pianist Lang Lang takes Beijing

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Profiles: The Spirit Level (Review) David Remnick
A Tale of Love and Darkness, by Amos Oz
- A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz



"Psalm at High Tide"David Remnick
The White House - Under Water


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Raging Bull (Review) David Remnick
Bad as I Wanna Be, by Dennis Rodman and Tim Keown
- Bad as I Wanna Be by Dennis Rodman and Tim Keown

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Reds Scared (Review) David Remnick
The Solzhenitsyn Files, by Michael Scammell and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, ...
- The Solzhenitsyn Files by Michael Scammell and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, ...

Report from Moscow: The Trial of the Old RegimeDavid Remnick
As the struggle for a democratic Russia lurches forward, the Communist Party forces a N...

A Reporter At LargeDavid Remnick
Hamlet in Hollywood

A Reporter At LargeDavid Remnick
Cornerman

A Reporter At LargeDavid Remnick
Checkpoint

A Reporter At LargeDavid Remnick
The Joshua Generation

A Reporter at Large: Belfast ConfettiDavid Remnick
In America, Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams played the role of a nationalist hero. But to many ...

A Reporter at Large: Curious GeorgeDavid Remnick
After doing what it takes for five years, has George Stephanopoulos had enough?

A Reporter at Large: The Crime BusterDavid Remnick
Jack Maple, the cop who cleaned up New York, faces the ultimate law enforcement challen...

Reporting (2006)David Remnick
Writings from the New Yorker
2 Reviews


The Critics
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Seasons In Hell (Review) David Remnick
Gulag: A History, by Anne Applebaum
- Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum


ShowcaseJoel Meyerowitz and David Remnick

Showcase: ChernobylRobert Polidori and David Remnick

The Sporting SceneDavid Remnick
Back in Play

The Sporting SceneDavid Remnick
Kid Dynamite Blows Up

The Sporting SceneDavid Remnick
American Hunger

The Sporting SceneDavid Remnick
The Moralist

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Spy Anxiety (Review) David Remnick
Sleeper Spy, by William Safire
- Sleeper Spy by William Safire

States of Mind: Lost in SpaceDavid Remnick
Beyond the complex sphere of Newt Gingrich's life and politics is his far-out school of...

States of Mind: Reading JapanDavid Remnick
Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe, the last of Japan's postwar political writers, is abandoni...

States of Mind: The Devil ProblemDavid Remnick
Following unimaginable personal tragedies, the Gnostic scholar Elaine Pagels decided to...

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The Struggle for Light (3 Reviews) David Remnick
Memoirs, by Andrei D. Sakharov
- Memoirs by Andrei D. Sakharov
- From Gorky to Moscow and Beyond by Andrei Sakharov
- Alarm and Hope by Andrei D. Sakharov, Efrem Yankelevich, and Alfred Friendly, Jr., ...










The Talk of the TownDavid Remnick
Jazz Dept. - Life On Mars



The Talk of the TownDavid Remnick and James Surowiecki


The Talk of the TownDavid Remnick
Comment - Wealth of Nations

The Talk of the TownHendrik Hertzberg and David Remnick

The Talk of the TownDavid Remnick
Smoke on the Water



The Talk of the TownDavid Remnick
Comment - Homelands

The Talk of the TownDavid Remnick
Dept. of Disputation: The Oracle

The Talk of the TownDavid Remnick
Political Notes: Gap Year

The Talk of the TownDavid Remnick
The Blotter: Blago Speaks Again

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WKGB (Review) David Remnick
Split Signals, by Ellen Mickiewicz
- Split Signals by Ellen Mickiewicz
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