Steve Coll | The New York Review of Books

Who Are the Taliban Now?

Hassan Abbas’s book surveys the second Islamic Emirate’s ideology and leading personalities and probes its internal tensions.

The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan After the Americans Left

by Hassan Abbas

June 22, 2023 issue

The Struggle for Better

The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

by Samantha Power

May 28, 2020 issue

Letter

Eric Reeves

Failures of Diplomacy

September 24, 2020 issue

We Buried the Disgraceful Truth

Two books measure the human costs of more than a decade of continuous war

Consequence: A Memoir

by Eric Fair

The Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan

by J. Kael Weston

June 23, 2016 issue

An Eloquent Voice from Guantánamo

Guantánamo Diary

by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, edited by Larry Siems

January 14, 2016 issue

Hitler & the Muslims

Islam and Nazi Germany’s War

by David Motadel

Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination

by Stefan Ihrig

April 2, 2015 issue

The Reporter Resists His Government

James Risen’s ‘Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War’

Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War

by James Risen

February 19, 2015 issue

Letter

James Kornell

The Quasi-Holy Secrets

April 23, 2015 issue

The Amazon Squeeze

November 20, 2014 issue

Citizen Bezos

Brad Stone’s ‘The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon’

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

by Brad Stone

July 10, 2014 issue

Letter

Neil McArthur

The Amazon Squeeze

November 20, 2014 issue

The King of the Foxes

Gabriel Sherman’s ‘The Loudest Voice in the Room’

The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News—and Divided a Country

by Gabriel Sherman

April 3, 2014 issue

Hard on Obama

Vali Nasr’s ‘The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat’

The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat

by Vali Nasr

July 11, 2013 issue

Why 'Zero Dark Thirty' Fails

Judging Zero Dark Thirty’s claims to journalism

Zero Dark Thirty

a film directed by Kathryn Bigelow

February 7, 2013 issue

Letter

Jason Epstein

How to Recruit Jihadis

February 21, 2013 issue

The Kill or Capture Presidency

You’d like your government to tell you the truth, and the government dissembled repeatedly after the raid about what the rules of engagement were. They dissembled because the truth was uncomfortable and because the rules are secret, and they have this deep culture of secrecy in this administration, as in the last couple, about rules of engagement. What it highlights is that the United States does not have a detention regime that works anymore. Anytime it brings terrorists suspects into custody it generated political controversy. And so what you can see is a bias is built up in the system, in which the Obama Administration judges it’s just easier to kill people. That doesn’t create any political controversy.

October 12, 2012