《纽约客漫画》是《纽约客》杂志多年来所登载漫画的精选集。它荟萃了美国几十位最有影响的漫画家作品。百余幅精彩画面，视角各异、风格多样，《纽约客漫画》分四卷，政治卷展现的是吵吵闹闹的美国政坛；商务卷表现了商场竞争的诡谲风云；金钱卷叙述了人们对财富不停追求；科技卷传达了信息时代人们面对飞速发展的现代科技所感到的迷惘困惑。 “很多美国人都会保存一幅在自己人生重大关头所遇见过的《纽约客漫画》，这是他们最为珍爱的，有它在身边，就有着在这大千世界是并不形单影只的自信。”――美国著名记者克里斯托弗・巴克利

马克·吐温曾经把打高尔夫称为“本来是一场绝佳的散步，可惜被搅乱了”；而李·特莱维诺则说打高尔夫球是他能穿着衣服玩的最来劲的游戏。无论对于笨蛋还是高手，打高尔夫都意味着获得乐趣的同时也倍受折磨，而且通常是在同一天，甚至是在同一个洞。 那么，双手拿着一根杆子把一个小球打进一个小洞里这件事到底有多难？答案隐藏在所有那些着了魔一般的高尔夫球迷的快乐与痛苦里。如果想知道他们到底有多着魔，你只要去问问他们的家人和朋友就知道了。 所以，无怪乎高尔夫球会成为《纽约客》杂志的漫画家们的创作题材。《纽约客》杂志的漫画编辑罗伯特·曼考夫，从过去二十年的漫画里精选出了最有代表性的作品，这些漫画充分展示了高尔夫球迷世界里的激情、焦虑，以及频繁的荒诞。这本令人难忘的选集收入了100页漫画，相信它们会像“一杆进洞”一样带给你乐趣。 <

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Ross, the classical music critic for the New Yorker, leads a whirlwind tour from the Viennese premiere of Richard Strauss's Salome in 1906 to minimalist Steve Reich's downtown Manhattan apartment. The wide-ranging historical material is organized in thematic essays grounded in personalities and places, in a disarmingly comprehensive style reminiscent of historian Otto Friedrich. Thus, composers who led dramatic lives—such as Shostakovich's struggles under the Soviet regime—make for gripping reading, but Ross treats each composer with equal gravitas. The real strength of this study, however, lies in his detailed musical analysis, teasing out—in precise but readily accessible language—the notes that link Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story to Arnold Schoenberg's avant-garde compositions or hint at a connection between Sibelius and John Coltrane. Among the many notable passages, a close reading of Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes stands out for its masterful blend of artistic and biographical insight. Readers new to classical music will quickly seek out the recordings Ross recommends, especially the works by less prominent composers, and even avid fans will find themselves hearing familiar favorites with new ears. (Oct.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

First time in paperback: The definitive history of one of America's most enduring and important cultural institutions For more than seven decades, The New Yorker has been the embodiment of urban sophistication and literary accomplishment, the magazine where the best work of virtually every prose giant of the century first appeared. With all the authority and elegance such a subject demands, Yagoda tells the fascinating story of the tiny journal that grew into a literary enterprise of epic proportions. Incorpo-rating interviews with more than fifty former and current New Yorker writers, including the late Joseph Mitchell, Roger Angell, Pauline Kael, Calvin Trillin, and Ann Beattie, Yagoda is also the first author to make extensive use of The New Yorker's archives. About Town penetrates the inner workings of The New Yorker as no other book has done, opening a window on a lost age.

From abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy—or an addled Goliath, riddled with corruption and on the edge of stagnation. What we don’t see is how both powerful and ordinary people are remaking their lives as their country dramatically changes. As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval. In Fortune, Truth, and Faith, he describes the greatest collision taking place in that country: the clash between the rise of the individual and the Communist Party’s struggle to retain control. He asks probing questions: why does a government with more success lifting people from poverty than any civilization in history choose to be the first regime since Germany in 1935 to prevent the relatives of a Nobel Peace Laureate from accepting his prize? And why do millions of young Chinese professionals—fluent in English and devoted to Western pop culture—consider themselves “Angry Youth,” dedicated to resisting the West’s influence? Writing with great narrative verve and a keen sense of irony, Osnos follows the moving, illuminating stories of everyday people and reveals life in the new China to be a battleground between aspiration and authoritarianism, in which only one can prevail.

A delightful, witty, spirited collection of short pieces and essays by the inimitable E. B. White.