Review by Kirkus Reviews, published on January 17, 2025: "A dazzling work of research, written with the flair of a novel."

Adam Rovner will be speaking at the New Stoke Newington Shul "Lunch and Learn" on June 14, 2025 in London. For non-members interested in...

Jewish Book Council Review by Brian Hillman, published on April 14, 2025: "Nathaniel Isaacs (1808−1872) can gen­er­ous­ly be described as a sailor, an entre­pre­neur, a writer, a diplo­mat, and an adven­tur­er. There is strong evi­dence that he was also a slave-trad­er, an absen­tee father, a vicious mer­ce­nary, and a gen­er­al dis­sem­bler. Adam Rover’s Isaacs’s biog­ra­phy of Isaacs, The Jew Who Would Be King, func­tions as an entry point into dis­cus­sions of colo­nial­is

Essay published in Paper Brigade Daily (online): "The pro­tag­o­nist of Saul Bellow’s Hen­der­son the Rain King (1959) bawls out a man­ic refrain that serves as his cre­do: ​“I want, I want!” Hen­der­son, a rest­less mil­lion­aire, leaves his fam­i­ly behind to trav­el to an imag­i­nary African coun­try — a mash-up of East­ern, West­ern, and South­ern Africa..."