On the Secrets of Isaac Babel ![](/wp-content/themes/Dissent-Rumors-Mobile/images/lock.gif)
The Complete Works of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel; edited by Nathalie Babel; translated by Peter Constantine W.W. Norton, 2001, 1076 pp., $45.00 He was a squat man. He wore thick glasses. Photographs captured him badly-none make it clear why …