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  George Steiner at the New Yorker (New Directions Paperbook) (Paperback) By (author) George Steiner, Introduction by Robert Boyers

  

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  Short Description for George Steiner at the New YorkerAn education in a portmanteau: George Steiner at The New Yorker collects his best work from his more than 150 pieces for the magazine.
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  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Published: 20 February 2009
  • Format: Paperback 304 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets | Literary Essays
  • ISBN 13: 9780811217040 ISBN 10: 0811217043
  • Sales rank: 99,241

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• Between 1967 and 1997, George Steiner wrote more than 130 pieces on a great range of topics for The New Yorker, making new books, difficult ideas, and unfamiliar subjects seem compelling not only to intellectuals but to the common reader. He possesses a famously dazzling mind: paganism, the Dutch Renaissance, children 's games, war-time Britain, Hitler 's bunker, and chivalry attract his interest as much as Levi-Strauss, Cellini, Bernhard, Chardin, Mandelstam, Kafka, Cardinal Newman, Verdi, Gogol, Borges, Brecht, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, and art historian/spy Anthony Blunt. Steiner makes an ideal guide from the Risorgimento in Italy to the literature of the Gulag, from the history of chess to the enduring importance of George Orwell. Again and again everything Steiner looks at in his New Yorker essays is made to bristle with some genuine prospect of turning out to be freshly thrilling or surprising.