Sasha Frere-Jones: How not dumb is Gaga? Apr 29, 2009
Philip Gourevitch and Jane Mayer discuss the torture memos ... Philip Gourevitch and Jane Mayer discuss the torture memos. (New Yorker)
Jill Lepore: Edgar Allan Poe and the economy of horror. Apr 28, 2009
The Humbug: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker. Edgar Allan Poe and the economy of horror. (New Yorker)
A literary feast awaits Jan 5, 2008
Philip Gourevitch has collaborated with filmmaker Errol Morris on Standard Operating Procedure (Picador, May) to present the first full reckoning of events in Abu Ghraib prison. Famous for The Good Women Of China, journalist Xinran wrote China Witness (Random House, July) after travelling in China and talking to those who shaped the country during Mao's time at a senior level and on the ground. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The best new journals Dec 31, 2007
The Paris Review, the oldest extant literary magazine in English, has reinvented itself under the editorship of Philip Gourevitch and gained circulation, while the increasingly commercial concerns of the mainstream media have galvanised groups of young writers to create their own space for publication - as the critic AO Scott wrote in the New York Times, 'to lodge a protest against the tyranny of timeliness ... Editor Philip Gourevitch, former New Yorker writer and author. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The curse of the unread Dec 30, 2007
In this melancholy frame of mind I turned to "The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. II" (introduced by Orhan Pamuk and edited by Philip Gourevitch; Picador, paperback, $16), which consists of the interviews of 16 writers, members of a species bound for extinction if you assume writing demands reading to exist fully. Mind you, that is an assumption that the modernist William Faulkner, interviewed here in all his peremptoriness, does not accept. (Boston Globe)
Herman: Genocide Inflation Oct 27, 2007
Philip Gourevitch and the New Yorker whipped up sympathy in the West by labeling the Tutsis the Jews of Africa; the label stuck, and it garnered even greater support for Western anti-genocide intervention. 18] These big lies are now institutionalized and are part of the common (mis)understanding in the West. (Zmag.org)
Check out the fall books preview Aug 27, 2007
Ed Sikov's Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis (Henry Holt); San Francisco writer Alex Frankel's Punching In: My Unauthorized Adventure as a Front Line Employee (Collins); Thomas Hines' The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (on a Shag Rug) in the Seventies (Sarah Crichton Books/FSG); Umberto Eco's essay collection, Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism (Harcourt); Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris' The Ballad of Abu Ghraib (The Penguin Press); and Judith Freeman's... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Book Festival hoping to grow in new garden sites Aug 11, 2007
Tickets were still available this weekend for authors including Ghada Karmi, Edmund White, Raj Persaud, Rosie Boycott, Philip Gourevitch, Nick Laird and Daljit Nagra among others. Book Festival visitors want "serious discussion and in-depth thought", Ms Lockerbie said. (Scotsman)
The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. 1 Apr 24, 2007
Introduction by Philip Gourevitch ... Philip Gourevitch, the current editor, puts his mark on the material by selecting 16 interviews - from Dorothy Parker in 1956 to Joan Didion last year - for the first of four new volumes ... Essays Introduction by Philip Gourevitch Canongate 2007 510 34. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Mamdani: Iraq and Darfur Mar 11, 2007
In We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families, the most widely read book on the genocide, Philip Gourevitch envisaged Rwanda as a replay of the Holocaust, with Hutu cast as perpetrators and Tutsi as victims. Again, the encounter between the two seemed to take place outside any context, as part of an eternal encounter between evil and innocence. (Zmag.org)
Ryszard Kapuscinski, 74; acclaimed Polish reporter covered Third World Jan 25, 2007
"I admired him enormously," said Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch. "He was a wise man, a great traveler, one of our the world's greatest writers.". (Los Angeles Times)
Q&A Philip Gourevitch Jan 22, 2007
Of course, Philip Gourevitch, who assumed the editorship in 2005, doesn't quite fit that profile. At 45, the New Yorker staff writer has won numerous awards for his two books of nonfiction, "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families" (1998), about the Rwandan genocide, and "A Cold Case" (2001), the re-investigation of a 1970 New York double homicide. (Boston Globe)
Book Review: The Paris Review Interviews, I Jan 11, 2007
The Paris Review Interviews, I. Introduction by Philip Gourevitch. 510 pages. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
