Best book of the year by far was Alvaro Enrigue’s You Dreamed of Empires. Cortez and Moctezuma bicker in the Aztec Emperor’s palace as the Aztec Empire falls. Brilliantly hallucinogenic, anti-Imperialist, and with a surprising appearance from T-Rex. Amazing. Read it, but maybe avoid taking as many drugs as the protagonists, who spend most of … Continue reading Best of 2024 | Books