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An edition of The first anthology (1993)

The first anthology

30 years of the New York review of books

"This is the first hard-cover anthology offered by The New York Review of Books since the first issue was published in 1963. For thirty years, The New York Review has been publishing essays by some of the world's best writers; this volume gathers together twenty-three of those essays.".

"The articles include political commentary, such as reflections on the devastation of Vietnam, Dwight Macdonald's visit to President Johnson's 1965 White House arts festival, and Andrei Sakharov's historic essay "How I Came to Dissent." Among the more personal accounts in the anthology are Gore Vidal's portrait of Amelia Earhart, a close friend of his father; Oliver Sacks's story of breaking his leg on a Norwegian mountain top, and Primo Levi's memoir of his last Christmas imprisoned at Auschwitz.".

"Some of the essays foreshadow contemporary events: Elizabeth Hardwick's moving report on the Watts riots in Los Angeles in 1966, and Hannah Arendt's "Reflections on Violence," which examines a "century of wars and revolution," written in 1969. Others, such as Susan Sontag's "On Photography" and Joan Didion's "In El Salvador," led to books that have since become widely known.".

"Essays on art include Robert Hughes's criticism of the vogue for Andy Warhol and John Richardson's review of the 1980 Picasso retrospective ("a retrospective to end all retrospectives")." "Among essays on literature and music are Robert Lowell's on Sylvia Plath, V.S. Pritchett's on Balzac, Richard Ellmann's on "Joyce at 100," Pierre Boulez's on Mahler, and Igor Stravinsky's (with Robert Craft) on Beethoven.".

"W.H. Auden reviews Oliver Sacks's first book, Migraine, Gabriele Annan evokes the Berlin origins of Marlene Dietrich, Isaiah Berlin writes on Alexander Herzen, and Jonathan Lieberson on Karl Popper, Joseph Brodsky recalls his friendship with Nadezhda Mandelstam, and Bruce Chatwin gives a chilling portrait of the novelist Ernst Junger as a German officer in occupied Paris."--BOOK JACKET.

This is the first hard-cover anthology offered by The New York Review of Books since the first issue was published in 1963. For thirty years, The New York Review has been publishing essays by some of the world's best writers; this volume gathers together twenty-three of those essays. The articles include political commentary, such as reflections on the devastation of Vietnam, Dwight Macdonald's visit to President Johnson's 1965 White House arts festival, and Andrei.

Sakharov's historic essay "How I Came to Dissent." Among the more personal accounts in the anthology are Gore Vidal's portrait of Amelia Earhart, a close friend of his father; Oliver Sacks's story of breaking his leg on a Norwegian mountain top, and Primo Levi's memoir of his last Christmas imprisoned at Auschwitz. Some of the essays foreshadow contemporary events: Elizabeth Hardwick's moving report on the Watts riots in Los Angeles in 1966, and Hannah Arendt's.

"Reflections on Violence," which examines a "century of wars and revolution," written in 1969. Others, such as Susan Sontag's "On Photography" and Joan Didion's "In El Salvador," led to books that have since become widely known. Essays on art include Robert Hughes's criticism of the vogue for Andy Warhol and John Richardson's review of the 1980 Picasso retrospective ("a retrospective to end all retrospectives"). Among essays on literature and music are Robert Lowell's on.

Sylvia Plath, V.S. Pritchett's on Balzac, Richard Ellmann's on "Joyce at 100," Pierre Boulez's on Mahler, and Igor Stravinsky's (with Robert Craft) on Beethoven. W.H. Auden reviews Oliver Sacks's first book, Migraine, Gabriele Annan evokes the Berlin origins of Marlene Dietrich, Isaiah Berlin writes on Alexander Herzen, and Jonathan Lieberson on Karl Popper, Joseph Brodsky recalls his friendship with Nadezhda Mandelstam, and Bruce Chatwin gives a chilling portrait of the.

Novelist Ernst Junger as a German officer in occupied Paris.

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English
Pages
345

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Table of Contents

A day at the White House / Dwight Macdonald
After Watts / Elizabeth Hardwick
On two poets / Robert Lowell ; "Lesbos" by Sylvia Plath
A Buddhist poet in Vietnam / Thich Nhat Hanh
The great amateur / Isaiah Berlin
Reflections on violence / Hannah Arendt
Eau de vie / Igor Stravinsky with Robert Craft
The megrims / W.H. Auden
Balzac at thirty / V.S. Pritchett
On photography / Susan Sontag
How I came to dissent / Andrei D. Sakharov
Mahler now / Pierre Boulez
Your show of shows / John Richardson
An aesthete at war / Bruce Chatwin
Nadezhda Mandelstam / Joseph Brodsky
The rise of Andy Warhol / Robert Hughes
In El Salvador / Joan Didion
Joyce at 100 / Richard Ellmann
The 'truth' of Karl Popper / Jonathan Lieberson
The bull on the mountain / Oliver Sacks
Girl from Berlin / Gabriele Annan
Love of flying / Gore Vidal
Last Christmas of the war / Primo Levi.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Other Titles
New York review of books.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
814/.5408
Library of Congress
AC5 .F45 1993, AC5.F45 1993, PN6142 .F57 1993

The Physical Object

Pagination
345 p. :
Number of pages
345

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1446401M
Internet Archive
firstanthology3000silv
ISBN 10
0940322013
LCCN
93085356
OCLC/WorldCat
28950365
Library Thing
374127
Goodreads
1106999

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