The Lever - Read This To Understand Gaza

Trump’s announcement that the United States could take control of Gaza has further deepened anxieties about a conflict that has shocked the world’s conscience, roiled global politics, and devastated an already precarious region. To fully understand what is at stake, you need to read The World After Gaza, available to buy now.

In The World After Gaza, Pankaj Mishra, one of our most prolific public intellectuals, offers an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza. His work reframes our understanding of the conflict, its historical roots, and the fractured global response.

The World After Gaza takes the war, and the polarized reaction to it, as the starting point for a broad reevaluation of major competing historical narratives of the last century. In this concise, powerful, and pointed treatise, Mishra reckons with the fundamental questions posed by our present crisis — about whether some lives matter more than others, how identity is constructed, and what the role of the nation-state should be. The World After Gaza is an indispensable guide to our past, present, and future.

This is a critical book on one of the major moral and political issues of our time. And if you buy it right now through this email, your purchase will also help The Lever in our mission to hold the powerful accountable.

“This is a rare text: courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding.” — Naomi Klein, author of Doppelganger.

“This profoundly important and urgent book finds Mishra, one of our most intellectually astute and courageous writers, at the peak of his powers.” — Hisham Matar, author of The Return.

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