Blue has sent me down a rabbit hole. Specifically, Prussian blue, which appears as a silent, deadly character in Benjamín Labatut’s 2020 novel, “When We Cease to Understand the World.” This slender ...

A little over 100 years ago, the great German sociologist Max Weber warned that the growth of modern science would result in the “disenchantment” of the world. He meant a world without mystery, ...

Are human beings so clever - or we think we are - that we'll devise new and ingenious advances to achieve fabulous things and deliver our own destruction? That's a question at the heart of Benjamin ...

Spanning most of the last century, the Chilean writer Benjamin Labatut’s stunningly propulsive new novel, The MANIAC, presents as a triptych about three (real) scientific prodigies whose gifts lead ...

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