Dan Jacobson

Dan Jacobson’s novels include All for Love and The Confessions of Joseph Baisz.

In the LRB Archive:

• Probably, Perhaps: Wilhelm von Habsburg · 14 August 2008

  • The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe by Timothy Snyder

• The Beautiful Micòl: Giorgio Bassani · 22 May 2008

  • The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani, translated by Jamie McKendrick

• Kipling in South Africa: Rudyard Kipling and Cecil Rhodes · 7 June 2007

• Less a Wheel than a Wave: Irène Némirovsky’s War · 11 May 2006

  • Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith

• You want Orient?: Leo Nussimbaum’s self-creation · 18 August 2005

  • The Orientalist: In Search of a Man Caught between East and West by Tom Reiss

• Ei kan nog vlieg: Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiw! · 2 January 2003

  • Way Up Way Out by Harold Strachan

• Fyodor, Anna, Leonid: Leonid Tsypkin · 9 May 2002

  • Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin, translated by Roger Keys and Angela Keys

• The Price: the concluding part of Dan Jacobson’s interview with Ian Hamilton · 21 February 2002

• You Muddy Fools: In the months before his death Ian Hamilton talked about himself to Dan Jacobson · 14 January 2002

• What is to be done? on death and memory in Russia · 4 January 2001

  • Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia by Catherine Merridale

• ‘Going Native’ on sexual favours in colonial East Africa · 25 November 1999

• The Light Waters of Amnion on Bruno Schulz · 1 July 1999

  • The Collected Works of Bruno Schulz edited by Jerzy Ficowski

• Arch-Appropriator on King Leopald II · 1 April 1999

  • King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Central Africa by Adam Hochschild

• On Display · 20 August 1998

  • King Khama, Emperor Joe and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African Eyes by Neil Parsons

• About ‘The God-Fearer’ · 9 July 1992

• Negative Capability · 24 November 1988

  • T.S. Eliot and Prejudice by Christopher Ricks

• Dan Jacobson on the story of stories · 19 May 1988

  • The Short Story: Henry James to Elizabeth Bowen by John Bayley

• Amazed · 10 December 1987

• The Circuit · 6 February 1986

• What the Boers looked like · 3 October 1985

  • To the Bitter End: A Photographic History of the Boer War 1899-1902 by Emanoel Lee

• Paralysing posterity · 20 June 1985

  • Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in 19th-Century England by Louis Crompton

• Angela and Son · 2 August 1984

  • Inside Outsider: The Life and Times of Colin MacInnes by Tony Gould

• The Boer-Lover · 16 February 1984

• Punishment · 15 September 1983

  • Final Judgment: My Life as a Soviet Defence Lawyer by Dina Kaminskaya, translated by Michael Glenny
  • Memoirs by Petro Grigorenko, translated by Thomas Whitney
  • Notes of a Revolutionary by Andrei Amalrik

• My Life · 1 September 1983

• ‘Patient’ – Part Two · 19 May 1983

• Patient · 17 February 1983

• Happy Valleys · 18 November 1982

  • White Mischief by James Fox
  • Earth to Earth by John Cornwell

• Jew d’Esprit · 6 May 1982

  • Disraeli’s Grand Tour: Benjamin Disraeli and the Holy Land 1830-31 by Robert Blake

• Möbius Strip · 3 December 1981

  • K: A Biography of Kafka by Ronald Hayman
  • Stories 1904-1924 by Franz Kafka, translated by J.A. Underwood

• Ars Brevis, Vita Longa · 16 July 1981

  • The Oxford Book of Short Stories by V.S. Pritchett
  • The Short Story in English by Walter Allen

• Alpha and Omega · 5 February 1981

  • Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation by D.H. Lawrence, edited by Mara Kalnins

• Lawrence Festival · 18 September 1980

• On the eve of something in South Africa · 19 June 1980

• Naked and glistening · 3 April 1980

  • The Diamond Underworld by Fred Kamil

• Venus de Silo by · 7 February 1980

  • The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

• The Secret of Bishop’s Stortford · 22 November 1979

• Lawrence and the Mince-Pies · 25 October 1979

  • The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Vol I: September 1901 – May 1913 edited by James Boulton

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