Describes the emergence and development of the 'New Yorker' magazine's cover art, and offers a collection of covers featuring the New York City experience, topical and seasonal subjects, the arts, sports, and other themes. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: From the author of Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Calamities of Exile combines three gripping narratives that afford a sort of double CAT scan into the natures of both modern totalitarianism and timeless exile."Beautiful but harrowing chronicles of three exiles that probe the moral and personal risks of their encounters with totalitarianism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The author takes readers on a tour of his personal museum of natural oddities and optical illusions as he explores the imaginative origins of art and science, in a work nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Traces the history of the Polish trade union, Solidarity, and describes the economic and social conditions in modern Poland

Traces the life and career of the California artist, who currently works with pure light and the subtle modulation of empty space

Traces the life and career of the California artist, who currently works with pure light and the subtle modulation of empty space