Hugh Eakin

A Nation in Search of Justice

What has been lost in all the shocking images of fires, police barricades, and looting is that an overwhelming majority of protesters have condemned the violence and have sought to bring the community together. 

Pandemic Journal, April 6–12

Brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Verlyn Klinkenborg in East Chatham, Hugh Eakin in Minneapolis–St. Paul, Dalia Hatuqa in Amman, and more.

Khashoggi & America’s Part in a Saudi Horror

This brazen killing did not occur in isolation. If it was the “game-changer” that many see, it was also the latest, most extreme manifestation of a repressive regime that has acted with virtual impunity while maintaining enviably close ties to Washington. The Saudis did what they did because they assumed they could get away with it.

The Ascetic Beauty of Brancusi

Few artists encapsulate the story of the early twentieth-century avant garde more alluringly than Constantin Brancusi. Within a few years, he had somehow managed to apprentice with Rodin. Then, throwing out the master’s methods, he completely redefined what sculpture was.

The Swedish Kings of Cyberwar

Sweden’s growing importance to the NSA

The True Story of Palmyra

Some of the same powers that “rescued” Palmyra caused significant new damage of their own

Racism in the North: An Exchange

Liberal, Harsh Denmark

The open, egalitarian nation has taken one of the hardest lines on refugees

The Terrible Flight from the Killing

There are virtually no legal ways for a refugee to travel to Europe

Syria's Forgotten

The US has accepted fewer than one thousand Syrian refugees—more made it through a hole in a fence at the Syrian-Turkish border during a few hours this past June.

Why Tunisia?

How can the Arab world’s most promising and ambitious new democracy also be one of its greatest producers of violent jihadists?

Blasphemy in Norway

Norway: The Two Faces of Extremism

Right-wing anti-immigration politics and jihadism are mutually reinforcing

The CIA: The Devastating Indictment

Our New Politics of Torture

Twelve years after the decision to use torture was secretly made, we’re seeing a public effort not only to defend the CIA but also to defend torture itself.

Zanzibar Comes to Arabia

In the Heart of Mysterious Oman

Can Oman’s peaceful absolutism survive?

A Different Pakistan

In an age in which international literary festivals have become commonplace, there is very little ordinary about the Lahore LitFest, starting with the location.

Images of the Syrian Exodus

A series of photographs shows some of the many different situations encountered among Syrian refugees in Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, and Iraq.

Syria's Refugee Catastrophe