Christian Caryl

Christian Caryl is the Tokyo Bureau Chief of Newsweek. He has reported from thirty-seven countries, including Russia, Afghanistan, North Korea, and Iraq. (December 2007)

From the Review

December 20, 2007: The Amazing Wanderer

Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron

September 27, 2007: Ice Capades

Ice by Vladimir Sorokin, translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell

March 1, 2007: Gods of the Mall

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Jay Rubin

January 11, 2007: What About the Iraqis?

Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq by Riverbend, with a foreword by Ahdaf Soueif and an introduction by James Ridgeway

Baghdad Burning II: More Girl Blog from Iraq by Riverbend, with an introduction by James Ridgeway and Jean Cassella

In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq by Nir Rosen

Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War by Anthony Shadid

July 13, 2006: At the Trough

Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart

May 25, 2006: Rumors of a Coup

The Successor by Ismail Kadare, translated from the French of Tedi Papavrami by David Bellos

Spring Flowers, Spring Frost translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by David Bellos

The Three-Arched Bridge translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson

The Palace of Dreams translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by Barbara Bray

The Pyramid translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by David Bellos, in consultation with the author

The Concert translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by Barbara Bray

Elegy for Kosovo translated from the Albanian by Peter Constantine

October 20, 2005: The Truth about Dhanu (letter)

September 22, 2005: Why They Do It

Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Robert A. Pape

Making Sense of Suicide Missions edited by Diego Gambetta

Perfect Soldiers: The Hijackers—Who They Were, Why They Did It by Terry McDermott

The Road to Martyrs' Square:A Journey into the Worldof the Suicide Bomber by Anne Marie Oliver and Paul F. Steinberg

Suicide Bombers: Allah's New Martyrs by Farhad Khosrokhavar,translated from the Frenchby David Macey

Suicide Terrorism by Ami Pedahzur

Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror by Mia Bloom

May 12, 2005: The Schizophrenic Sufi

Snow by Orhan Pamuk

August 12, 2004: Le Carré's War on Terror

Absolute Friends by John le Carré

The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré

March 11, 2004: Mysteries of the Caucasus

Stories I Stole by Wendell Steavenson

The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire by Khassan Baiev, with Ruth and Nicholas Daniloff

Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War by Thomas de Waal

Highlanders: A Journey to the Caucasus in Quest of Memory by Yo'av Karny

Caucasus: Mountain Men and Holy Wars by Nicholas Griffin

May 29, 2003: Window on Russia

Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871–1881 by Joseph Frank

Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia by W. Bruce Lincoln

Russia in the Age of Peter the Great by Lindsey Hughes

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes

St. Petersburg: A Cultural History by Solomon Volkov,translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis

Peter the Great by Lindsey Hughes

Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

December 19, 2002: Death in Moscow: The Aftermath

July 18, 2002: Giving the Russians Their Spinach

The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy by Strobe Talbott

April 11, 2002: Tyrants on the Take

Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise by Martha Brill Olcott

July 19, 1990: The Two Faces of Europe