Joshua Hammer | The New York Review of Books

Promise and Disillusion in South Africa

Despite a shift in political power, the country is plagued by racial divisions and economic inequalities.

These Are Not Gentle People: Two Dead Men. Forty Suspects. The Trial That Broke a Small South African Town

by Andrew Harding

Prisoners of the Past: South African Democracy and the Legacy of Minority Rule

by Steven Friedman

The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning

by Eve Fairbanks

September 22, 2022 issue

The Herero Genocide

February 10, 2022 issue

The Horrors of the Diamond Boom

The discovery of diamonds in German Southwest Africa in 1908 led to ruthless exploitation of the colony.

Blood and Diamonds: Germany’s Imperial Ambitions in Africa

by Steven Press

Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa

by Matthew Gavin Frank

November 18, 2021 issue

Letter

Fabian Krautwald

The Herero Genocide

February 10, 2022 issue

Marooned!

Julian Sancton recounts the largely forgotten story of the Belgica's disastrous Antarctic expedition in the late 1890s.

Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

by Julian Sancton

August 19, 2021 issue

A Ghost in the War Machine

Alexander Wolff's turbulent family history centers on his grandfather, who fled the Nazis, and his father, who fought for them.

Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home

by Alexander Wolff

April 8, 2021 issue

Letter

Ruth Mandel

More Memorials

May 27, 2021 issue

Because It’s Still There

The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas

by Scott Ellsworth

October 8, 2020 issue

Exit Mugabe

Two Weeks in November: The Astonishing Untold Story of the Operation That Toppled Mugabe

by Douglas Rogers

November 7, 2019 issue

Zimbabwe: Enter the Crocodile

April 5, 2018 issue

Egypt’s Failed Revolution

January 13, 2016 issue

Egypt: The New Dictatorship

Sisi has used the threat of terror to justify a clampdown on any kind of dissent.

The Egyptians: A Radical History of Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution

by Jack Shenker

Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism: Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy

edited by Dalia F. Fahmy and Daanish Faruqi

June 8, 2017 issue

Letter

Jack Shenker

Egypt’s Failed Revolution

January 13, 2016 issue

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

March 21, 2017

The Mosul Mess

The three main forces advancing toward the city are in conflict about their parts in the coming liberation.

November 10, 2016 issue

Can Germany Cope with the Refugees?

Germany’s Response to the Refugee Situation: Remarkable Leadership or Fait Accompli?

a report by Matthias M. Mayer in Newpolitik, Bertelsmann Foundation, May 2016, available at www.bfna.org

The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe’s Refugee Crisis

by Patrick Kingsley

August 18, 2016 issue

The Nepal Catastrophe

Kathmandu

by Thomas Bell

Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal

by Prashant Jha

May 12, 2016 issue

Betrayal in Burma

The Rebel of Rangoon: A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma

by Delphine Schrank

November 5, 2015 issue

The Rule of Boko Haram

‘Boko Haram: Inside Nigeria’s Unholy War’ by Mike Smith

Boko Haram: Inside Nigeria’s Unholy War

by Mike Smith

July 9, 2015 issue

The Very Tricky Trial of the Khmer Rouge

May 21, 2015 issue

The Terrible War for Sri Lanka

No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka

a film by Callum Macrae

Noontide Toll

by Romesh Gunesekera

The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka’s Civil War

by Rohini Mohan

This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War

by Samanth Subramanian

March 5, 2015 issue

Terror at the Edge of the Sahara

May 22, 2014 issue

Timbuktu: Surviving After All

October 24, 2013 issue