Category Archives: reviews

Ben Ehrenreich’s New Palestine Book Explores Life on “Planet Hebron”

When I moved to Lebanon in 1972, a joke was doing the rounds about an Englishman, a Frenchman, and an…

The conviction that invasion, bombing, and special forces benefit large swaths of the globe, while remaining consonant with a Platonic…

Policemen with truncheons in Ferguson, Missouri, bash African American protestors. A Predator drone bombs a Muslim wedding party in Afghanistan.…

Review of John Wayne: The Life and Legend by Scott Eyman Simon & Schuster, pp.512, £25, ISBN: 978439199589

Review of AMERICA’S GREAT GAME The CIA’s secret Arabists and the shaping of the modern Middle East by Hugh Wilford…

Review of House of Stone by Anthony Shadid Granta, 336 pp, £14.99, August 2012, ISBN 978 1 84708 735 5…

Review of Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean by Philip Mansel John Murray, 480 pp, £10.99, September 2011, ISBN…

Review of Patriot of Persia by Christopher de Bellaigue Bodley Head, 310pp, £20

Review of The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris David McCullogh Simon & Schuster, 560pp, £25 Of all the cities in…

Toward the end of 2010, a small book by a 93-year-old man unexpectedly reached the summit of the bestseller list…