PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksMishra is effective in forcing the Holocaust out of its historical vacuum in the pliable imaginary and back into the world of shared burdens and interconnected histories. He’s also effective in braiding together narratives and identities ... Mishra appears to have simplified things, reaching for the last centuries’ harsh unions of racism and imperialism to paint Gaza in terms that presently resonate ... Perhaps his claim rings truer if we interpret it in light of what distinguishes Israel’s annihilation of Gaza from other wars ... If Mishra’s book feels rushed at points, more about the world before Gaza than about the world during or after the war, it’s because the subject, while he was writing, could be rushed.
