For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Jason Burke

From the June 2023 Issue

The Unassuming Despot

Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny

By Con Coughlin

From the June 2017 Issue

Cultural Desert

The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for This Storied City and the Race to Save Its Treasures

By Charlie English

From the October 2016 Issue

Raising the Black Flag

United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists

By Peter Bergen

The Caliphate

By Hugh Kennedy

From the May 2015 Issue

Al-Qaeda’s Prodigal Child

ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror

By Michael Weiss & Hassan Hassan

ISIS: The State of Terror

By Jessica Stern & J M Berger

From the June 2011 Issue

The End of Violence

The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers

By Gordon Weiss

From the February 2011 Issue

In the Line of Fire

The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Faultline Between Christianity and Islam

By Eliza Griswold

From the March 2009 Issue

Hot Spot

A World of Trouble: America in the Middle East

By Patrick Tyler

From the September 2008 Issue

A Reliable Witness

The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror

By Dexter Filkins

From the June 2007 Issue

Beyond The Spectacle

Travels with Herodotus

By Ryszard Kapuscinski