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Dr Freezelove

Laleh Khalili, 7 May 2026

Polar War: Submarines, Spies and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic 
by Kenneth R. Rosen.
Profile, 302 pp., £22, January, 978 1 80522 912 4
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... the blinkered thinking that is so often applied to the Arctic, you have only to look at Kenneth Rosen’s Polar War, a weird mix of literary-wannabe travelogue (‘The wind is a thief trafficking in breath’), political and geopolitical commentary, and oddly intimate self-exposure, with a terrifying appendix called ‘Reining in the ...

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