Bernard-Henri Lévy has a new book, The Will to See: Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope (Yale University Press) and a documentary of the same name, both of which combine autobiography with documentary journalism and humanitarian activism. In many ways, it is a summation of Lévy’s efforts over the last 50 years to give voice to the forgotten victims of genocides and to make a difference in the lives of the survivors.
The book is composed of two parts: the first is an autobiographical es…
