The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

He has also served on the New York Public Library's board of trustees. Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from the New Yorker (with Henry Finder eds. The Devil Problem: And Other True Stories.

He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. He was named "Editor of the Year" by Advertising Age in 2000. Before joining The New Yorker Remnick was a reporter and the Moscow correspondent for The Washington Post.