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Dan Jacobson

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

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

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Family Fortunes
Helen Cooper: The upwardly mobile Pastons

Tremble for Tomorrow
Jenny Diski: In the Vilna Ghetto

Reasons to be Miserable
James Meek: The Day My Pants Froze

Catharama
J.L. Nelson: Heretics

Versailles with Panthers
James Davidson pays tribute to the Persians