A wartime aesthete: Selected essays from The New Yorker: Selected essays from The New Yorker

Author: Isaiah Berlin
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Publication Date: 2004-10-01
Features: This book collects 16 articles by internationally renowned authors from The New Yorker over the past three decades. The content covers a wide range. In terms of politics and society: such as Isaiah Berlin's Einstein and Israel, W.H. Auden's Migraine, Gabriel Braude's Mahler's Reincarnation, and Hannah Arendt's Thoughts on Violence. This anthology also includes other works by Joseph Brodsky, Bruce Chatwin, and Andrei Sakharov. These articles have sparked great in the intellectual and think tank circles. In literature and art, it features beloved works such as Susan Sontag's On Photography and Joan Didion's In Salvador. Finally, the portrait caricature by The New Yorker's resident cartoonist, David Levine, adds great reading enjoyment to the book.