Ed Vulliamy and Pascal Vannier
D-Day’s Forgotten Victims Speak Out

Eighty years after D-Day, few know one of its darkest stories: the thousands of French civilians killed by a British and American carpet-bombing campaign of little military purpose.

Neve Gordon and Penny Green
Israel’s Universities: The Crackdown

Last October, Palestinian students and academic staff in Israel faced unprecedented penalties for their speech. Now the repression persists.

Gyan Prakash
A ‘Life of Contradictions’

As Indian democracy comes under increasing threat from Hindu nationalists, the Dalit politician B.R. Ambedkar’s fight against caste inequality acquires a new significance.

Linda Greenhouse
The Constant Presence of Fear

The anthropologist Laurence Ralph has long written about the search for meaning in lives beset by conflict and crisis. In Sito, his new book about the murder of a nineteen-year-old relative, one of the seekers turns out to be Ralph himself.

Free from the Archives

In the summer of 1943, while watching a newsreel of a German city ablaze after bombing by the RAF, “Churchill turned to his neighbor and said, ‘Are we beasts? Are we taking this too far?’” In the Review’s December 20, 2018 issue, Geoffrey Wheatcroft reviews two books about England’s bombing campaigns, which were used both as a method of “air control” in colonial conflicts and in the ferocious “orgy of destruction” of World War II.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft
One Hundred Years of Destruction

To have seen devastating bombing as the only way through was forgivable in the dire circumstances of 1940, but by the beginning of 1942 defeat was no longer feared.

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