The Way to the Spring

Ehrenreich spent years in the West Bank reporting on Palestinian life under occupation — not the politics, or not only the politics, but the texture of daily existence: the checkpoints, the demolished houses, the olive harvests, the waiting. This is the most important piece of long-form journalism I have read in years.

He writes with the patience and precision of someone who stayed long enough to understand what he was looking at. The book does not simplify. It does not offer consolation. It asks you to look at something clearly, and it trusts you to do so. That trust is not misplaced.