Philip Gourevitch

An account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. It chronicles what has happened in Rwanda since 1994, when the government called on the Hutu majority to murder the Tutsi minority. Some 800,000 people were exterminated in a hundred days. A Tutsi pastor, in a letter to his church president, a Hutu, used the chilling phrase that gives the book its title. The author descibes the anguish of genocide's aftermath: mass displacements; revenge and the quest for justice; and impossibly crowded prisons and refugee camps. Through portraits of Rwandans in all walks of life, he focuses on the psychological and political challenges of survival.

The Paris Review is one of the seminal literary magazines, a groundbreaking publication that has consistently, over six decades, brought great writers together from all over the world Its legendary interview series alone represents the single most important body of work that celebrates writing about writing... "The Paris Review" es uno de los magazines literarios canónicos, una publicación rompedora que, con constancia incomparable durante más de seis décadas, nos ha traído los mejores escritores de todo el mundo Sus legendarias series de entrevistas, sin contar el resto del contenido de la revista, son el cuerpo

"The Paris Review" was founded in 1953 and has published early and important work by Philip Roth, V S Naipaul, Jeffrey Eugenides, A S Byatt, T C Boyle, William T Vollmann and many others. It is one of the seminal literary magazines, that has brought great writers together from all over the world.

"The Paris Review" was founded in 1953 and has published early and important work by Philip Roth, V S Naipaul, Jeffrey Eugenides, A S Byatt, T C Boyle, William T Vollmann and many others. It is one of the seminal literary magazines, that has brought great writers together from all over the world.

"The Paris Review" was founded in 1953 and has published early and important work by Philip Roth, V S Naipaul, Jeffrey Eugenides, A S Byatt, T C Boyle, William T Vollmann and many others. It is one of the seminal literary magazines, that has brought great...

Standard Operating Procedure is a war story that takes its place among the classics. It is the story of American soldiers who were sent to Iraq as liberators only to find themselves working as jailers in Saddam Hussein's old dungeons, responsible for implementing the sort of policy they were supposed to be fighting against. It is the story of a defining moment in the war, and a defining moment in our understanding of ourselves—the story of the infamous Abu Ghraib photographs of prisoner abuse, as seen through the eyes, and told through the voices, of the soldiers who took them and appeared in them. It is the story of how those soldiers were at once the instruments of a great injustice and the victims of a great injustice. In a tradition of moral and political reckoning, and all-powerful story- telling, that runs from Joseph Conrad's The Heart of Darkness and Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Grand Inquisitor to Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song, Philip Gourevitch has written a relentlessly surprising and perceptive account of the front lines of the war on terror. Drawing on more than two hundred hours of Errol Morris's startlingly frank and intimate interviews with the soldier-photographers who gave us what have become the iconic images of the Iraq war, Standard Operating Procedure is a book that makes you see, and makes you feel, and above all makes you think about what it means to be human. It is an utterly original book that stands to endure as essential reading long after the current war in Iraq passes from the headlines—a work of searing power from two of our finest masters of nonfiction, working at the peak of their powers.

How do great writers do it? From James M. Cain's hard-nosed observation that 'writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational,' to Joan Didion's account of how she composes a book—'I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm'—the Paris Review has elicited some of the most revelatory and revealing thoughts from the literary masters of our age. For more than half a century, the magazine has spoken with most of our leading novelists, poets, and playwrights, and the interviews themselves have come to be recognised as classic works of literature, an essential and definitive record of the writing life. They have won the coveted George Polk Award and have been a contender for the Pulitzer Prize. Now, Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch introduces an entirely original selection of sixteen of the most celebrated interviews. Often startling, always engaging, these encounters contain an immense scope of intelligence, personality, experience, and wit from the likes of Elizabeth Bishop, Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, Rebecca West, and Billy Wilder. This is an indispensable book for all writers and readers.

El policía neoyorquino Andy Rosenzweig está a punto de jubilarse y sólo tiene un peso sobre su conciencia: el hombre que mató a un amigo suyo hace veintisiete años aún no ha sido detenido. Dar con él se convierte en su obsesión, pero nadie está preparado para encontrarse con un asesino inteligente, seductor y peligrosamente honesto.Un enfrentamiento entre dos personalidades poderosas con códigos morales opuestos; una intriga sólida envuelta en una atmósfera de novela negra; un relato intenso sobre el crimen en la ciudad de Nueva York; y por encima de todo, una pregunta sin respuesta: ¿qué lleva a un hombre a cometer un asesinato?A partir de una historia real, y basándose en investigaciones periodísticas, Philip Gourevitch se interna con valentía en la mente de un criminal en esta muestra extraordinaria de nuevo periodismo que se lee como una novela.

Esta excepcional obra es una mirada al corazón de la guerra de Irak, la historia de las infames fotografías de la tortura en Abu Ghraib vistas a traves de los ojos y las voces de los soldados que las tomaron. Hay imagenes que trascienden su significado original para convertirse en iconos. En la guerra de Irak, este es el caso de las fotografias de las torturas en Abu Ghraib. "Las fotografias no pueden contar historias -dice Philip Gourevitch-, solo pueden ser la evidencia de las historias, y una evidencia muda. Son necesarias la investigacion y la interpretacion." La balada de Abu Ghraib es la historia de los soldados norteamericanos que fueron enviados a Irak como libertadores para acabar trabajando como carceleros en las antiguas mazmorras de Sadam Husein, asumiendo el papel de los verdugos que se suponia que ellos debian combatir; es la historia de como esos soldados se convirtieron en ejecutores -pero tambien en victimas- de una terrible injusticia.Esta excepcional obra es una mirada al corazón de la guerra de Irak, la historia de las infames fotografías de la tortura en Abu Ghraib vistas a traves de los ojos y las voces de los soldados que las tomaron y que aparecen en ellas, y que hicieron tambalear todas las argumentaciones proferi