This absurdly handsome fella is Benjamín Labatut, the enigmatic Chilean writer whose first book to be translated into English, When We Cease to Understand the World, I devoured in an astonished fever. It’s a speculative nonfiction novel about mad scientists, or more precisely, scientists driven mad by the tendency of science to lead them up to and then …
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