Labyrinths and Clues: Essays

This book contains the following pieces, all published first in The Fortnightly Review: Essayism and Modernity | William Blake. | Therianthropes and vents. | Constellations. | Pattern recognition and the periodic table. | Extremities of perception in an age of lenses. | Demotic ritual. | Science and disenchantment. | The self-subversion of the book. | Newton's prisms. | The Janus face of Metaphor. | Clues and labyrinths. | Ruin, the collector and sad mortality.