Zodiac hate crime, going a decade without meals, seeking revenge in Roland Barthes – wisdom is a fruit of the most regrettable choices, truth only what you can annul.

Beyond affirming that fashioning a new self is often a matter of class, the French author’s coming-out auto-fiction is a cold, hard accounting of being bored shitless.

Fragrant with sea musk, “A Shimmer Through The Quantum Foam” grafts generative AI and Cambrian zooplankton into one fruit-ripe family tree.