Jori Lewis
Buried Sunshine

The more I learned about the legacy of coal mining in my Illinois hometown, the more light it seemed to cast on the state’s long histories of violence.

Rachel Kushner
Obscure and Ill-Fated

Where did literature’s criminals come from, and where are they going?

Never Gordon and Muna Hadad
The Road to Famine in Gaza

“For decades Israel has systematically damaged the Gaza Strip’s capacity to produce its own foodstuffs, decreasing its access to drinkable water and nutritional food.”

—March 30, 2024

Jonathan Mingle
Lights Out

“[Republicans] are betting that…voters won’t connect the dots and punish them for spiking energy bills…. But it would be foolish to assume that rolling blackouts and spiking electricity bills will fail to produce any political backlash.”

Free from the Archives

In September 2022 Alex de Waal wrote for the Review an analysis of recent famines, which at the time included those stemming from conflicts in Yemen, Ethiopia, Somalia, and South Sudan. In the modern world, De Waal argued, famines are rarely due to environmental conditions, but are instead the result of intentional policy choices by warring parties and the international governments that choose to look the other way or, in many cases, abet starvation.

Alex de Waal
The Vanishing Point of the Laws of War

For over 150 years, the world’s paramount maritime powers—first Britain and then the US—have been more accustomed to enforcing blockades than trying to lift them, more interested in preserving the belligerents’ privilege to wage wars of hunger than in protecting the rights of the civilians those wars starve.

Save $168 on an inspired pairing!
Get both The New York Review and The Paris Review at one low price.

Get the deal

Politics   Literature   Arts   Ideas

You are receiving this message because you signed up
for email newsletters from The New York Review.

Update your address or preferences

View this newsletter online

The New York Review of Books
207 East 32nd Street, New York, NY 10016-6305