Confessions of the Fox
by Jordy Rosenberg
You can practically smell this book, which is particularly noticeable coming back to it after tearing through a KJ Charles book that took place maybe 50-75 years later. (Lol what is English history, actually I don't know the time difference. I'm sure London still smelled horrible in the early-mid 1800s.)
I didn't like this quite as much as I had expected to, maybe because of the level of theory but maybe also because some of the stuff you just have to accept at the beginning doesn't pay off, or become justified from a Watsonian perspective, til much later. For ex: why are the footnotes being added in chronological order? Or: what is all this random magical realism doing here?
Awkward to read pandemic conspiracy theories coming from a communist perspective published in 2018. Oh well.....