George Steiner at the New Yorker

by George Steiner

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811217043
• ISBN13: 9780811217040
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 7.8"