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..."