{"product_id":"9781590178799","title":"After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is really going on here? For decades Renata Adler has been asking and answering this question with unmatched urgency. In her essays and long-form journalism, she has captured the cultural zeitgeist, distrusted the accepted wisdom, and written stories that would otherwise go untold. As a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e from 1963 to 2001, Adler reported on civil rights from Selma, Alabama; on the war in Biafra, the Six-Day War, and the Vietnam War; on the Nixon impeachment inquiry and Congress; on cultural life in Cuba. She has also written about cultural matters in the United States, films (as chief film critic for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), books, politics, television, and pop music. Like many journalists, she has put herself in harm’s way in order to give us the news, not the “news” we have become accustomed to—celebrity journalism, conventional wisdom, received ideas—but the actual story, an account unfettered by ideology or consensus. She has been unafraid to speak up when too many other writers have joined the pack. In this sense, Adler is one of the few independent journalists writing in America today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of Adler’s nonfiction draws on \u003ci\u003eToward a Radical Middle\u003c\/i\u003e (a selection of her earliest New Yorker pieces), \u003ci\u003eA Year in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e (her film reviews), and \u003ci\u003eCanaries in the Mineshaft\u003c\/i\u003e (a selection of essays on politics and media), and also includes uncollected work from the past two decades. The more recent pieces are concerned with, in her words, “misrepresentation, coercion, and abuse of public process, and, to a degree, the journalist’s role in it.” With a brilliant literary and legal mind, Adler parses power by analyzing language: the language of courts, of journalists, of political figures, of the man on the street. In doing so, she unravels the tangled narratives that pass for the resolution of scandal and finds the threads that others miss, the ones that explain what really is going on here—from the Watergate scandal, to the “preposterous” Kenneth Starr report submitted to the House during the Clinton impeachment inquiry, to the plagiarism and fabrication scandal of the former \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e reporter Jayson Blair. And she writes extensively about the Supreme Court and the power of its rulings, including its fateful decision in Bush v. Gore.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054881980656,"sku":"9781590178799","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590178799_p0.jpg?v=1763804538","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590178799","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}