Philip Gourevitch

Philip Gourevitch (born 1961, Philadelphia, PA) - an acclaimed American author, journalist and long-time staff writer for The New Yorker. He is widely recognized for his narrative non-fiction that explores themes of crime, memory, and survival. Gourevich is well-known for his writing on the Rwandan genocide [We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (1998)] and the American prison during Iraq War [Standard Operating Procedure (2008)]. He served as the editor of The Paris Review from 2005 to 2010.

A Cold Case (2001): a true-crime narrative centered on the 1970 double homicide of restaurateurs Richie Glennon and Pete McGinn in Manhattan. The story follows Andy Rosenzweig, a retired investigator for the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, who becomes obsessed with closing the 27-year-old case. Despite a lack of leads for decades, Rosenzweig eventually tracks the suspect, Frankie Koehler, to Benicia, California, where he had been living under an assumed identity. Critics often describe the book as “Manhattan noir,” transforming a criminal investigation into a philosophical meditation on the natures of the hunter and the hunted. 

Gourevitch, Philip, (A Cold Case) [hc, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2001] 978-0374125134 [pb, Picador, 2002] 978-0312420024