Philip Gourevitch Books

The first volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world's best loved literary magazines

The art of the interview has never been more lively or engaging than in the pages of The Paris Review. Since this seminal literary magazine was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of the past half century, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely crafted literature. In this second volume, editor Philip Gourevitch selects a rich, varied crop of literary voices, including William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Graham Greene, James Baldwin, Stephen King, Philip Larkin, Eudora Welty, Peter Carey, Gabriel García Márquez, and more. "A colossal literary event" as Gary Shteyngart put it, The Paris Review Book of Interviews, Volume II offers an indispensable treasury of wisdom and insight from the literary masters of our age

The third volume of the acclaimed Paris Review Interviews, described by Gary Shteyngart as a 'colossal literary event'

This is a second volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world's best loved literary magazines. The encounters between The Paris Review and the world's leading writers have elicited some of the most revelatory and revealing thoughts from the literary masters of our age. Entertaining and thought-provoking, it is essential reading for anyone who cares about writers and writing.

Examines the horrors of genocide in Rwanda, where 800,000 people of an ethnic minority were exterminated in one hundred days.

With an Introduction by Salman Rushdie For more than fifty years, The Paris Review has brought us revelatory and revealing interviews with the literary lights of our age. This critically acclaimed series continues with another eclectic lineup, including Philip Roth, Ezra Pound, Haruki Murakami, Marilynne Robinson, Stephen Sondheim, E. B. White, Maya Angelou, William Styron and more. In each of these remarkable extended conversations, the authors touch every corner of the writing life, sharing their ambitions, obsessions, inspirations, disappointments, and the most idiosyncratic details of their writing habits. The collected interviews of The Paris Reviews are, as Gary Shteyngart put it, "a colossal literary event."

Two of the country's top moral and political observers have produced the first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib prison, based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with the Americans involved.

„Am 18. Februar 1970 erschießt der mehrfach vorbestrafte Frankie Koehler zwei Freunde und taucht daraufhin unter. Nach Jahren erfolgloser Fahndung wird Koehler 1992 offiziell für tot erklärt und der Fall, der in New York für großes Aufsehen gesorgt hatte, eingestellt. Die Anhaltspunkte dafür, dass Koehler wirklich tot ist, sind jedoch ausgesprochen zweifelhaft, und so beschließt Andy Rosenzweig, der Chefermitt-ler der Staatsanwaltschaft, 27 Jahre nach dem Doppelmord den Fall wieder aufzurollen. Auf Eis gelegt ist Philip Gourevitchs meisterhafte Dokumentation eines wahren Verbrechens und seiner späten Aufklärung. Mit ihren drei Protagonisten und dem mysteriösen Mordfall enthält sie alle Ingredienzen eines klassischen amerikanischen Krimis. Da ist der ehrliche, hart arbeitende und dem Ideal der Gerechtigkeit verpflichtete Cop Rosenzweig, des-sen Entschlossenheit, Koehler für die Morde zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen, die Geschichte vorantreibt, dann der zwielichtige, skrupellose Vertei-diger Murray Richman und schließlich Koehler, der kaltblütige Mörder, der sich als eine schillernde Gestalt voller Widersprüche und Selbsttäuschungen entpuppt.“