The Lampshade: A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans »

Journalist Mark Jacobson tells the true story of his historical, moral, and philosophical journey of discovery after a friend finds a lampshade made of human skin in the ...

The New York Times - Dwight Garner

…an antic, improbable and resonant nonfiction book, one that's part historical horror story and part squalid crime caper…Mr. Jacobson's book passes a primal test… When you put it down, you look forward to picking it up again. This is largely because it becomes an entangling meditation on not merely Nazi atrocities but on the nature of authenticity.