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An Unbeliever’s View of the Jonestown Massacre

New Yorker Culture 14 July 2026 15h ago
An Unbeliever’s View of the Jonestown Massacre
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Shiva Naipaul’s newly reissued book of reportage, “Journey to Nowhere,” from 1980, is far less interested in the trope of the charismatic cult leader than in the mechanisms of belief.
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