Dan Jacobson is a novelist and essayist. His latest book is Heschel's Kingdom, a memoir and account of his travels in Lithuania. (November 2002)
November 21, 2002: Bad Trip
Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard by Sara Wheeler
The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition by Susan Solomon
December 21, 2000: Dog Spelled Backwards
Only Yesterday by S.Y. Agnon, Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav
July 7, 1966: Family Troubles
In My Father's Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer