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Daniel J. Kevles
Unreasonable Terms

In Owning the Sun, Alexander Zaitchik shows how American drug companies have exploited government contracts to pursue profit over public interest.

Lynn Hunt
The Orphan Among Revolutions

Christopher Clark’s history of the 1848 revolutions highlights the destinies of individuals and the legacy of the tumults.

Poem

a poem by 
Devin Johnston

for Robert Adamson, 1943–2022

First words, last words—
mostly they’re inaudible,
like the mimicry of bowerbirds
or a radio through cotton wool
with fuzz around the frequency.
You guess at what the words might be
but no guess seems quite plausible…

Tim Judah
Black Swan Time

Three months into Ukraine’s counteroffensive, even the best predictions about the war’s outcome could still be thrown off course.

Meg Weeks
‘The Base of the Labor Pyramid’

Long exploited and denied basic rights, Brazil’s domestic workers continue to organize against an entitled elite.

Free from the Archives

On the evening of September 16, 1982, three months into the Lebanon War and two days after the assassination—by Syrians—of Lebanese president Bachir Gemayel, Israel’s then defense minister, Ariel Sharon, invited a Phalangist Christian militia to assist the Israel Defense Forces by, in Sharon’s words, “checking and clearing out” potential terrorists from a Palestinian area in southern Beirut. Over the next three days, the militia murdered at least 1,390 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians while IDF troops surrounded the neighborhood, shooting flares into the sky at night to help light the slaughter.

In September 2018 Seth Anziska wrote about the Sabra and Shatila massacre, as it came to be known, for the Review, and published alongside his essay a trove of previously unpublished documents that painted an incriminating picture of Israel’s collusion in the violence.

Seth Anziska
Sabra and Shatila:
New Revelations

“The new documents paint a more incriminating picture of wider Israeli official eagerness to invite the Phalange militia into Beirut, to help fulfill a broader diplomatic and military objective of vanquishing Palestinian demands for nationhood and the right of return.”