A wartime aesthete（《New York Review of Books》essay collection)

Author: (English) Berlin (Berlin, I.) et al.; Translated by Gao Hong
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Publish 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 is very broad. In terms of politics and society: such as Isaiah Berlin's Einstein and Israel, W.H. Auden's Migraine, Gabriel Annan's Mahler's Resurrection, and Hannah Arendt's Thoughts on Violence. This anthology also includes other articles by Joseph Brodsky, Bruce Chatwin, and Andrei Sakharov. These articles have had a great impact on the intellectual and think tank circles. In terms of literature and art, it features works such as Susan Sontag's "On Photography" and Joan Didion's In Salvador. Other well-known works include Robert Lowell's Two Poets, Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, and Robert Hughes's The Rise of Andy Warhol. Finally, the portrait caricature by The New Yorker's resident cartoonist, David Levine, adds great reading enjoyment to the book.