The New York Review Abroad: Fifty Years of International Reportage
edited by Robert B. Silvers, with prologues by Ian Buruma
Over the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international war, revolution, and event of consequence by dispatching the world’s most brilliant writers to send back eyewitness accounts. The New York Review Abroad not only brings together twenty-seven of the most riveting of these pieces but includes prologues that update and reassess the political situation they describe.
Among the pieces included are: Susan Sontag’s personal narrative of staging Waiting for Godot in war-torn Sarajevo; V.S. Naipaul’s visit to Argentina, which includes a mesmerizing account of the cult of Evita; Ryszard Kapuscinski’s terrifying description of being set on fire while running roadblocks in Nigeria; a fellow dissident’s chilling narrative of Andrei Sakharov and Elena ...
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Literary Journalism: A Discussion
On April 3, 2013 The New York Review and the Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers at the New York Public Library presented a panel discussion celebrating the Review‘s 50th anniversary and discussing the future of literary journalism. This podcast features excerpts from remarks by Ian Buruma, Joseph Lelyveld, Zoë Heller, Alma Guillermoprieto, and Andrew Delbanco.
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