Suzy Hansen

2 months ago | nybooks.com | Suzy Hansen

The first time the Taliban asked Omari to place a bomb beneath a convoy of American soldiers, he was happy the detonator used a motorcycle battery rather than a cell phone battery because the latter often blew up in people’s faces. He buried the bomb in the sand moments before four American Humvees passed over it, and hiding in tall grass he watched as a door flew over his head and American bodies fell to the ground.

Oct 30, 2024 | nybooks.com | Pankaj Mishra |Suzy Hansen |Ben Rhodes

On the anniversary of Hamas’s attack on Israel, Ben Rhodes, Suzy Hansen, and Pankaj Mishra discuss the devastating violence of the year since, and America’s role in the conflagration. Watch the first conversation of The New York Review of Books’s series on the 2024 Elections below.   You may view all available recordings in this series on this page.

Oct 15, 2024 | nybooks.com | Pankaj Mishra |Suzy Hansen |Ben Rhodes

On the anniversary of Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, Ben Rhodes, Suzy Hansen, and Pankaj Mishra discussed the devastating violence of the year since, and America’s role in the conflagration. Watch the first conversation of The New York Review of Books’s series on the 2024 Elections below.   You may view all available recordings in this series on this page.

Apr 1, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Matthew Goodman |Suzy Hansen

Failure abounds today, but also its recuperation. Who hasn’t been sold “resilience,” what with a vast industry of self-help hucksters and combination fitness-business influencers imploring you to grit your teeth and embrace the grind? Samuel Beckett’s call to fail again and better has been repurposed as prosperity gospel by BrainyQuote.com and by Buddhist nun and best-selling self-help author Pema Chödrön.

Feb 13, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Suzy Hansen

On the evening of September 8, 2020, the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos erupted in flames. The inferno was exacerbated by the camp’s close quarters and shoddy construction.