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A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / August 8, 2026

The Other Naipaul Walked Through Jonestown's Wreckage

A newly reissued 1982 book on the deaths at Jonestown reveals Shiva Naipaul, younger brother of Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul, as a fierce and unsettled moral reporter who saw the massacre as a political catastrophe rather than just a cult story.

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By Andrew Holter ยท The Paris Review

The entrance to the Jonestown compound in Guyana, where more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple died in November 1978.
The entrance to the Jonestown compound in Guyana, where more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple died in November 1978.
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