 Sponsored by the University of California Press The joint US–Israeli bombing of Tehran, now in its eleventh day, has already taken a heavy toll across the city. Among the numerous civilian sites in Iran’s capital to have suffered damage from what Pete Hegseth calls “death and destruction from the sky” is its Grand Bazaar, long a hub for the city’s influential merchants. “Nine weeks earlier,” Arang Keshavarzian wrote on Sunday in the NYR Online, “that bazaar had been at the center of a very different upheaval. In late December shopkeepers, moneylenders, and merchants there took to the streets, igniting an immense wave of protests against the regime that was brutally repressed by Iran’s security apparatus. When they unleashed this week’s violence, the US and Israel at once obscured the memory of that uprising and capitalized on it.” That Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are “trying to bend the Dey protests to their own purpose,” Keshavarzian continues, makes it “all the more urgent to understand the uprising’s causes and legacy.” Those causes are complex. They stretch back, Keshavarzian argues, to the early years of the twenty-first century, when the regime at once sidelined a prominent reformist movement and implemented policies that put much of the country’s economy under the sway of institutions with close ties to the state. The protests sparked by these changes, he suggests, “offer a window into the fortunes of Iran’s citizens, the changing structure of its state, and the trajectory of the regime the US now seeks to obliterate.” Below, alongside Keshavarzian’s essay, we have gathered recent pieces about the war on Iran alongside essays from our archive about the political and economic shifts that transformed the country in the first decade of this century.  Arang Keshavarzian |
martes, 10 de marzo de 2026
The Fight Inside Iran
lunes, 9 de marzo de 2026
Last chance: Get Robert Coover’s ‘The Universal Baseball Association’ with the NYRB Classics Book Club
  Sign up now for a one-year membership to the NYRB Classics Book Club to get $70 off the regular rate. As a club member, you will receive a newly published book from the NYRB Classics series in your mailbox each month. Each selection is handpicked by NYRB editors.Now is your last chance to receive the March selection with this discount. Order by this Wednesday, March 11, and we’ll begin your membership with Robert Coover’s The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., the story of an isolated accountant who escapes the grim reality of his life by obsessively running a baseball league inside his head. In The New York Times, Matt Weiland called the book “one of the best baseball novels. . . . Right from the start the book nearly matches On the Road for sheer electricity. . . . The genius of the novel is in how Coover revels in the sun-bright vitality of the world Waugh has created, full of drink and lust and dirty limericks and doubles down the line—and yet brings Waugh face to face with its darkest truths.”You are receiving this message because you signed up for newsletters from The New York Review or New York Review Books. You can choose the types of messages you wish to receive: |
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domingo, 8 de marzo de 2026
Trump’s Folly in Iran
 Sponsored by Hirmer Publishers Today in The New York Review of Books: David Cole and Joost Hiltermann decry Trump’s war in Iran; separately, Cole asks how universities can pursue diversity now that the Supreme Court has struck down most affirmative action programs; Robert G. Kaiser mourns Jeff Bezos’s decimation of The Washington Post; Ruth Bernard Yeazell looks at a collection of the old Dutch masters; and, from the archives, Tony Judt in 2003 on Bush’s war in Iraq, a “tragedy of historical proportions.”  David Cole |
