The New York Review of Books

Burmese Days

July 12, 2012

The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi by Peter Popham

Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia by Thant Myint-U

The Specter of Nuclear Drones

October 27, 2011

Predators and Robots at War

September 29, 2011

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-first Century by P.W. Singer

Predator: The Remote-Control Air War over Iraq and Afghanistan: A Pilot’s Story by Lieutenant Colonel Matt J. Martin with Charles W. Sasser

Why WikiLeaks Changes Everything

January 13, 2011

The Tired Terrorist

December 23, 2010

The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink, translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside

Unveiling Hidden China

December 9, 2010

China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom by Richard Baum

China’s Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Society by John Naisbitt and Doris Naisbitt

Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State by Yasheng Huang

Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China by James Fallows

When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order by Martin Jacques

The Mind of Empire: China’s History and Modern Foreign Relations by Christopher A. Ford

Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler

North Korea: The Crisis of Faith

July 15, 2010

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom by Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh

The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves—and Why It Matters by B.R. Myers

The Conjurer

February 11, 2010

The Assistant by Robert Walser, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky

Pixar Genius

October 8, 2009

WALL·E a film by Pixar Animation Studios

The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company by David A. Price

To Infinity and Beyond! The Story of Pixar Animation Studios by Karen Paik, based on research and interviews by Leslie Iwerks, with a foreword by John Lasseter, Steve Jobs, and Ed Catmull

The Art of Pixar Short Films by Amid Amidi, with a foreword by John Lasseter

‘The Russians Are Coming?’

April 30, 2009

The Russians Are Coming?

February 12, 2009

The New Cold War: Putin’s Russia and the Threat to the West by Edward Lucas

An Asian Star Is Born

December 18, 2008

The China Lover by Ian Buruma

The Other North Korea

August 14, 2008

Jia: A Novel of North Korea by Hyejin Kim

North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea by Andrei Lankov

A Corpse in the Koryo by James Church

Hidden Moon by James Church

Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World’s Most Repressive Country by Mike Kim

The Amazing Wanderer

December 20, 2007

Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron

Ice Capades

September 27, 2007

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

Gods of the Mall

March 1, 2007

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

What About the Iraqis?

January 11, 2007

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

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

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

At the Trough

July 13, 2006

Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart

Rumors of a Coup

May 25, 2006

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

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 Concert translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by Barbara Bray

Elegy for Kosovo translated from the Albanian by Peter Constantine

The Truth about Dhanu

October 20, 2005

Why They Do It

September 22, 2005

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

Making Sense of Suicide Missions edited by Diego Gambetta

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

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 Terrorism by Ami Pedahzur

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

The Schizophrenic Sufi

May 12, 2005

Snow by Orhan Pamuk

Le Carré’s War on Terror

August 12, 2004

Absolute Friends by John le Carré

The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré

Mysteries of the Caucasus

March 11, 2004

Stories I Stole by Wendell Steavenson

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

Caucasus: Mountain Men and Holy Wars by Nicholas Griffin

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

Window on Russia

May 29, 2003

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

Peter the Great by Lindsey Hughes

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

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

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

Death in Moscow: The Aftermath

December 19, 2002

Giving the Russians Their Spinach

July 18, 2002

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

Tyrants on the Take

April 11, 2002

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

Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise by Martha Brill Olcott

The Two Faces of Europe

July 19, 1990

Islamist Déjà Vu: The Lessons of 1979

September 13, 2012

North Korea's Not-So-Simple Succession

December 19, 2011

America, Achilles

September 13, 2011

Pakistan: When The State Loses Control

January 6, 2011

WikiLeaks in the Moral Void

December 7, 2010

North Korea's New Prince

October 1, 2010

China: The Fragile Superpower

November 19, 2009

Al-Qaeda: The Uzbek Branch in Pakistan

November 4, 2009

IEDs: What We Don't Know

October 14, 2009