Five Favorite Novels About the Patterns of History
(These novels aren’t historical fiction as traditionally conceived, but novels that take history and its patterns as their subject, listed in order of preference.)
Fireflies by Luis Sagasti
Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century by Patrik Ouředník
Here by Richard McGuire
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer
Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore
— September 27, 2020