Review
List of Review articles
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks to the media in New Delhi on Jan. 31. How India’s Domestic Politics Impede Its Foreign Policy
A new book shows that New Delhi’s own obstacles could slow its ambitions on the global stage.
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A soldier takes a coffee break in downtown Colombo, Sri Lanka. Trysts With Sri Lanka’s Ghosts
In the Booker Prize-winning “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,” the past haunts a country racked by unresolved death.
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My Imaginary Country connects Chile's complex history to contemporary revolutionary social movements and the election of a new president. Idealism Rules in Patricio Guzmán’s Chile
The exiled filmmaker’s latest work is a passionate—if incomplete—account of the 2019 estallido and its aftermath.
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An Indian soldier and Pakistani soldier shake hands. Why the India-Pakistan Rivalry Endures
A recent book emphasizes domestic politics in the conflict but doesn’t account for the depth of the impasse.
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A man dressed as a vampire walks though a hotel lobby in Salem, Massachusetts on October 1, 2022. American Horror Stories Aren’t Just Cinematic
A new history ties the genre to U.S. atrocities—not always convincingly.
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Two men in suit sit side-by-side. One is pointing past the camera. Argentina’s Junta Trial Was About More Than a Few Good Men
Relying on Hollywood clichés, “Argentina, 1985” offers a pat, sentimentalized view of history.
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The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning by Eve Fairbanks (Simon & Schuster, 416 pp., $27.99, July 2022). No Justice. No Peace.
Post-apartheid South Africa remains steeped in the “rainbow nation” ideals of reconciliation and forgiveness—but it has never truly reckoned with accountability.
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Power-Broker-Robert-Moses-Robert-Caro-China-illustration Beijing’s Power Brokers Wouldn’t Surprise Robert Moses
An American classic offers fresh insights into China.
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Military aircraft is seen above plumes of spoke. The Solution to Climate Change Isn’t Demilitarization
A new book argues that the Pentagon drives carbon emissions worldwide but ignores inconvenient realities.
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An illustration for Puck magazine from 1905 shows the battle against bureaucracy. Only an Absolute Bureaucracy Can Save Us
The West will only restore its stability when civil servants are again devoted to the public rather than themselves.
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Daily Life In Bali Is Longtermism Such a Big Deal?
William MacAskill’s “What We Owe the Future” was endorsed by Elon Musk and has fueled a movement, but is it all that revolutionary, really?
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Journalists and students protest the murder of Mexican journalist Regina Martínez in 2012. The Journalist and the Murderer
A new book investigates the death of veteran Mexican crime reporter Regina Martínez Pérez—with a surprising conclusion.
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A man rests in front of a poster of former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in Shenzhen, China. The 1980s Are Buried but Not Dead in China
A new history explores an intense period of hope, reform, and death.
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food-commodity-books-multiple The Foods That ‘Changed’ the World
What happened to all those bestselling individual food histories?
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foreign-policy-cookbooks-homepage 7 Cookbooks for Foreign-Policy Wonks
Cookbooks remind us that countries are more than their politics.
