David Remnick

David Remnick on the ex-President’s defeat of Kamala Harris, and how Democrats must regroup to protect liberal democracy and civil liberties.

David Remnick on the life and recent death of Robert Gottlieb, a former editor of The New Yorker and Knopf, who worked closely with Robert Caro.

In his first interview since a near-fatal stabbing, the author talks with David Remnick about the attack, his recovery, and his new novel, “Victory City.”

He’s in his eighties. How does he keep it fresh? David Remnick reports.

David Remnick on how, half a century after the Beatles broke up, McCartney is still correcting the record—and making new ones.

David Remnick writes about Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 election, and what President Barack Obama’s reaction to the new political landscape is.

At eighty-two, the troubadour has another album coming. Like him, it is obsessed with mortality, God-infused, and funny.

Vladimir Putin lives his Olympic dream.

David Remnick talks to the President about what he hopes to accomplish in his second term and whether he will satisfy the standard he set for himself.

In the world’s second-largest refugee camp, Syrians find that it’s not easy to flee the war.

Bruce Springsteen at sixty-two.

How China’s greatest musician will win the Beijing Games.

David Remnick on the former President, the work of the Clinton Foundation, and Clinton's efforts to elect Hillary.

Comment about the death of Pope John Paul II… Tells about Karol Wojtyla becoming Pope in 1978. According to the Pope’s biographer, George Weigel, his …

Amos Oz writes the story of Israel.

Signed comment about the conclusion of formal hostilities in the Second Persian Gulf War... It would also require a constricted conscience to declare the …

Signed comment about Seymour Hersh’s Annals of War in the current issue... [T]he Persian Gulf War, in which, a decade ago, the United States and its …

David Remnick on the novelist's streamlined life and turbulent work.

How Cassius Clay became the most original and magnetic athlete of the twentieth century.

LETTER FROM LANCASTER COUNTY about Amish drug dealers. On July 2nd, two Amishmen from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Abner Stolzfus and Abner King …

David Remnick’s 1997 Profile of the reclusive author of “White Noise” and “Underworld,” novels about the power of the media in the modern world.

LETTER FROM JERUSALEM about Israeli politician and former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky. In the Land of Israel, nothing is more telling than the hat on …

David Remnick profiles the Long Island-raised star of “The Howard Stern Show,” whose bad taste and unruly id have invaded radio, television, bookshelves, and the big screen, including the film adaptation of his autobiography “Private Parts.”

A REPORTER AT LARGE about crime consultant Jack Maple... Tells about his early days as a member of the New York City transit police... He was the son of a …

David Remnick on Katharine Graham, of the Washington Post, the most imposing woman in journalism.

LETTER FROM RUSSIA about Boris Yeltsin's election in Russia. The writer met with Valdimir Kryuchkov, the last K.G.B. head, in the last days of the …

Signed Comment about Mayor Marion Barry's ineffective rule of Washington, D.C. & Sen. Robert Dole's resignation from the Senate in order to pursue …

David Remnick on the first—and last—President of the Soviet Union.

David Remnick on Ben Bradlee, the editor of the Washington Post.

Comment about the New York Public Library on its 100th anniversary. "In "Democratic Vistas" and "Specimen Days" Walt Whitman continued in prose the rolling…

David Remnick on the religion scholar Elaine Pagels and the problem of evil.

Signed Comment about the aftermath of the confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas. Three years ago, the Senate Judiciary Committee with its televised …

To the many people in Northern Ireland living in fear, Gerry Adams is just another man who won't let an old war die.

David Remnick’s 1994 Profile of the author of “Invisible Man.”

Comment about the evolution of democracy in Russia, and the recent failed coup there... When Andrei Sakharov died, on December 14, 1989, the movement for …

Comment on George Steinbrenner's desire to move the Yankees out of the Bronx. New Yorkers still mourn the departure of the Dodgers, in 1957, and wear …

David Remnick’s 1993 Profile of the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Post columnist Murray Kempton.

David Remnick meets the city’s best-known newspaper editors, including the founder of Nezavisimaya Gazeta—“the closest thing Russia has ever had to a Western daily,” he wrote, in 1992.