Suzy Hansen | The New York Review of Books

The Price of American ‘Safety’

A number of new books recount the horror America created and then left in Afghanistan. Can anyone grasp the realities of occupation and the “war on terror” if they haven’t been on their receiving end?

Twenty Years: Hope, War, and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation

by Sune Engel Rasmussen

How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan

by Amin Saikal

March 13, 2025 issue

Gaza, Israel, and the American Left: October 7 One Year Later

October 7, 2024

Twenty Years of Outsourced War

In Uncertain Ground, Phil Klay sets out to determine what twenty-first-century US foreign policy has done to the cocksure American mind.

Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War

by Phil Klay

Missionaries

by Phil Klay

October 19, 2023 issue

Letter

Wesley H. Clark

Permanent War, Permanent Protest

November 23, 2023 issue

Istanbul Blues

Istanbul: Memories and the City (Deluxe Edition)

by Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely

Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities

by Bettany Hughes

February 22, 2018 issue

Turkey’s Women Strike Back

Why have women been leading this summer’s protests in Turkey? Despite the Erdoğan government’s reputation for innovative economic policies, the situation of women has lagged far behind international standards on almost every measure.

August 19, 2013