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Benjamín Labatut, Adrian Nathan West: When We Cease to Understand the World (Paperback, 2021, New York Review Books) 4 stars

A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in …

madness

3 stars

In the face of non-deterministic societal evil and the limits of an individual life or grasp or genius... "When We Cease To Understand The World" encapsulates it well. The format of documentary slipping into fantastical nightmare is fitting and yet weird to assess.