A Tragi-Goth, Wryly Humorous Meditation on Death, Doom, and Chaos

The tagline: "The lampshade emerged from the wreckage of Katrina. But was it really what it appeared to be--a Buchenwald artifact made of human remains?"

Mark Jacobson's stunning "Skin," an excerpt from his book The Lampshade: A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans.