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Today's review: When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamin Labatut
The Guardian describes it as: "ingenious, intricate and deeply disturbing" Check out the full review here
The New York Times Book Review says: Labatut "casts the flickering light of Gothic fiction on 20th-century science. In five free-floating vignettes, he illuminates the kinship of knowledge and destruction, brilliance and madness" For the full review, see here
The New Yorker cites it as being "as compact and potent as a capsule of cyanide" Enjoy the full review here
The verdict: elegant prose and prescient subject matter combine in a deft and propulsive tale of science and human understanding in the 20th century. If you are at all interested in the world around you, it is highly recommended.