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Gavin Jacobson

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October 7, 2016
Gavin Jacobson
Snowden vs. Le Carré
What do John Le Carré's classic espionage novels mean in the age of surveillance?
March 31, 2016
Gavin Jacobson
Under the Protection of Holy Sisters
A Jewish refugee in occupied France, Moritz Scheyer was sheltered by nuns.
February 4, 2016
Gavin Jacobson
Grandparents in Love and War
Ian Buruma’s memoir of his grandparents follows a tradition of haunting elegies by Jewish descendants.
December 15, 2015
Gavin Jacobson
Primo Levi, Mountain Rebel
Levi's experience as a partisan—and the execution of two teenage boys—showed him humans' capacity for extreme violence.

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